Doting on Mr. Su (21) since childhood, I've been reading books with him every year

  The Lijun branch supermarket, although it is said to be the largest in Yifeng Town, is really small. The food area is not even as big as my room, and there's even a layer of dust on the packaging bags of the goods.

  I caught two little brats at the potato chips section, and they even knew how to drag a shopping basket that was already half full. What's with all the snacks, milk bottles, and Oreos...

  “！”

  I widened my eyes and took another look at the words on the packaging, oh - it's not Oreo, but Aohuo!

  I checked again even more carefully and found a bottle of Ramune soda.

  Put the fake goods back, and then check the expiration date one by one. The two of them shopped in front, and I carried and checked behind, really like a full-time nanny. I don't know if Zhang Auntie had the same feeling when she went shopping with us those years ago.

  I'm actually a part-time cashier, and this three-year-old kid still recognizes me. If I don't let him buy something, he says I'm cheating him... I've come to fully understand what it means to be careful with making promises. Because I agreed to take him to buy snacks, now I'm the one who has to pay, and I don't even have any veto power. Otherwise, he'll say I'm hurting his young heart.

  I asked him who he learned it from, and he said his older brother in kindergarten told him.

  That's at most five or six years old, nowadays kids are really hard to deal with...

  When we finished paying and were carrying our big and small bags out of the supermarket, Fu Chaoyang was showing off his beloved car to a group of half-grown kids, with the convertible top open on this cold winter day.

  This is just one convenient thing, I directly put Xiaolong and his snack bag on the back seat.

  Fu Chaoyang stretched out his hand and asked me: "Is there any sugar?"

  It's the Chinese New Year, can't I put some sugar in my pocket?...I just grabbed a handful for him, but he still wouldn't let go, so I simply poured all the sugar from my pocket into his, and even patted it to prove: "Really none left..."

  He handed out all the candies to those kids with a good mood, and smiled warmly: "Happy New Year, I'm going home now, goodbye."

  In just a short while, he went from being called uncle to being called brother.

  It seems that his sorrowful mood after being stuck with couplets was cured by a group of children.

  Indeed, children who have not been contaminated are angels.

  He smiled and waved at the group of children as he drove away with the convertible's top down, his expression without a hint of reluctance.

  "On the way back, he said: 'It seems that when we were so big, we never had such a year with so much flavor. Look at them holding a bag of firecrackers and incense, their hands are frozen red but they don't seem to feel it. They're all smiling so silly and pure, happy to the point of making people envy.'"

  I thought about it, and from what I can remember, he rarely set off firecrackers. Even when setting off fireworks, he used a lighter. As for a group of kids carrying a bag of firecrackers and randomly setting them off on the streets, that never happened, not even once.

  I'd rather not mention it, girls aren't really interested in setting off firecrackers anyway. It's cold in winter, so most of the time they just huddle together with Shen Qiwei to drink milk and eat cookies, watching a group of boys play cards, fight, and pop brain crackers. Sometimes they even stick paper strips on their faces like a bunch of ghosts, it's hilarious.

  It seems like it was just a while ago, but after careful calculation, more than ten years have passed.

  It's no wonder that he sighed, with so many rules and regulations in the city, and living among young people of the new era who don't take traditional New Year's customs seriously, and with all these bans on firecrackers, where can you find such a free and joyful "New Year's game"?

  Here, familiar or not, those who have met before will nod and say "Happy New Year", in the city, most people don't even know if their neighbors are male or female...

  I think, for the children's New Year life here, both of us have a few points of envy.

  On the way back, Fu Chaoyang was in a good mood driving the car and playing Korean songs that neither of us could understand.

  The provincial road that runs through the town is the dividing line between prosperity and residential areas. Once you cross the provincial road, it means you're home. It takes two minutes by car and about ten minutes on foot.

  The road in front of Grandma's house is already packed with cars, Uncle's, Dad's, Second Aunt's husband's, and even the one from the house behind... He actually came to mooch off the security camera.

  Paid Chaoyang baby to park the car in the closest position to the monitor, then stopped and got off, pulled up the seat, took out the two little brats behind with their snacks, still in a good mood, hugging Xiaolong into the yard, laughing and joking, asking him to share half of his snacks with the driver.

  Liu Wenlong's little friend has always liked Fu Chaoyang, how could he not agree to such a request?

  Besides, snacks aren't bought with his money, he's being generous.

  I was holding Zhu Xiaotong's hand and had just reached the stairs when my phone rang. Mr. Su was calling to assign daily tasks again, asking in a cheerful tone: "Have you dressed yet?"

  "Wearing new clothes and shoes, even a new hairstyle!"

  Zhu Xiaotong tilted her head and looked me up and down from top to bottom, then covered her mouth and laughed as she ran inside.

  I was stunned for a moment and had no idea what she was laughing at.

  Mr. Su said: "It's rare for you to be so obedient, I'll give you a big red envelope tomorrow."

  "We're of the same generation, no need for formalities, right?"

  "Then return to me what you owed me from childhood?"

  "...Then just wrap it up!" I've seen people who don't want to give out red envelopes, but never seen anyone who has to give them out. I curled my lips and walked into the hall in my slippers, just as Pei Chao Yang slipped into the kitchen. It reminded me of what happened with the couplets on the car, and how he was bullied by the bamboo tube bean seller: "...By the time I came out, he had already fully recovered, and even envied others for setting off firecrackers everywhere!"

  "Su Hao?"

  "Huh?"

  "Why aren't you talking anymore? I thought we got disconnected..." The town's internet isn't very good, the signal has been between 1 and 2.

  He fell silent for a moment, then smiled: "I guess I've never had that kind of year either."

  "Are you reminiscing about this?"

  "I also remember you and Shen Qiwei fooling around, spilling milk all over your body, smelling of milk everywhere..." He took advantage of my speechlessness to add another sentence: "It was delicious."

  I'm completely speechless now, which year was that? 2002 or 2003? It seems like every New Year's Day we were together having a blast, there were too many exciting things, can't remember the time.

  But why mention Coca-Cola?

  He didn't know what he was thinking of and suddenly laughed quietly.

  "I couldn't help but say: 'Mr. Su, did you know that there's a course in kindergarten called 'Sharing'?"

  "Want to know?"

  “……”

  Isn't this nonsense? Why would I ask if I didn't want to know?

  "Plum blossoms are blooming, I want to ask if that day when I carried you upstairs and kissed you, would you think I have pedophilia?" His tone was 70% playful and 30% serious.

  "...I blinked more calmly than I thought, and after a moment's consideration, asked: "Will my answer have an impact on the current situation?"

  "In what aspect?"

  "For example emotions, for example marriage."

  He fell silent for a moment, then burst out laughing: "Fu Xiangxiu, you're really silly. With so many people in the world, why can't I be with you? Don't you get it?"

  I also fell silent for a moment, hesitantly replying: "You say that's love, but I don't understand..."

  "You don't need to understand, just watch me carefully." He sighed with a headache: "At first I was crazy, and I would argue with you about this word. You make me forget it, just think of me, huh?"

  His tone is always so pleasant and enchanting.

  He suddenly made me want to laugh, did he have a feeling of lifting a stone and hitting his own foot?

  "Your silence makes me anxious, Fu Ying."

  I couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Alright, alright, I've got it all memorized! Oh, and Mr. Su, Happy New Year! Congratulations on getting another year older!"

  "...is something I should be congratulated for."

  He paused for a moment before responding, his tone pleasant and not at all what I had expected; I thought he would be huffing with anger.

  As soon as the call was over, Fu Chaoyang happened to come out of the kitchen with a plate of meatballs and meat segments. It's unknown whether it was just a coincidence or he had been eavesdropping, but in any case, he walked directly to the sofa and sat down, staring straight at the Mario brothers jumping into the river without batting an eyelid.

  Xiao Longlong rushed over as soon as he saw him return, looking like a lifesaver: "Big brother, we can't get past the first level again, what do we do?"

  "Have you had breakfast?"

  "Yum!"

  "What's for dinner?"

  Little dragon dragon stretched out five fingers and counted: "Seven pieces of meat, a bowl of noodles! I also drank a big cup of water!"

  Fu Chaoyang nodded slightly and coaxed, "Look, it's almost noon now. We've been to the supermarket again. Are the noodles and meat slices almost digested?"

  Xiao Longlong seemed to understand and his eyes lit up: "Is it that Big Brother also wants to finish eating these pieces of meat, only then will he have the energy to help us get to the second level?"

  Fu Chao Yang was taken aback for a moment, the corners of his mouth twitching, and then he nodded seriously: "You have to eat too, otherwise you'll never see the princess in your lifetime!"

  Little Dragon thought for a moment, crawled down from the sofa, and ran to the kitchen shouting "Mommy, I want noodles!", leaving Zhu Xiaotong stunned, probably just like me, didn't expect this kid to be so easy to fool.

  I asked him: "Who is the princess?"

  "You don't know?" Fu Chaoyang looked over with an incredulous expression, and then another look of astonishment: "Your childhood was really eaten by Mr. Su, and you actually didn't know that Super Mario kept eating mushrooms to rescue the princess..."

  "Stop messing around! Where are you going to find that many mushrooms for them to eat?!"

  "You actually don't know that someone wants to save the princess..."

  “……”

  Damn it.

  I don't know if it's my fault that Super Mario Brothers is about rescuing the princess, but I played all the games he played, no pre-storyline, no ending storyline either. At that time, I was either caught by Mr. Su to study or stuck with Mr. Su, where did I have time to clear the game?