i was my mistake

But the mother was amused by her.

There was only mother's laughter on the phone, and it took a long time to calm down: "Sometimes I think this is not bad."

"Maybe."

"Given the chance, would you want to know when your own life would end?"

"Too lazy to know."

"Hey—here we come!" Mother's voice raised a little, "Okay, I'm going downstairs, and you all have a happy Chinese New Year today."

"Okay, why don't you say goodbye to Dad?"

"No."

The mother hung up the phone, and Wan Qing listened to the 'beep' for a few seconds before putting it back on the dial-type landline.

"She hung up."

"..."

"Hang up."

"Ah."

……

100. Fireworks in full bloom

　The Spring Festival Gala in [-] was pretty good. In my impression, Wanqing had never watched the Spring Festival Gala this year, and when I watched it later, I didn’t have the same feeling as before.

But she never thought that she would one day make up for this little regret.

—and with the family.

The family is not deserted, there is Ye Chen, there is her father, there is herself, and there is Xiao Bai who seems to be very excited when the New Year comes, running around everywhere.

"Xiaobai, you knocked over the beer bottle again!"

"Xiaobai is here to get beaten!"

"Haha, look at this silly dog, how funny it is." Father laughed heartily.

At 23:40, the Spring Festival Gala has come to an end.

The past year is finally coming to an end.

"Go down and set off the fireworks!" Ye Chen couldn't wait, "Someone is already setting off the fireworks!"

"Let's go downstairs to set off fireworks." Dad nodded.

"Tsk, like a child, so enthusiastic about setting off fireworks."

"Who the hell had so much fun with firecrackers yesterday!"

"Anyway, it's not me." Wan Qing spread her hands, and even the villain complained first, "Dad, do you know that Ye Chen didn't learn well yesterday, and went to blow up other people's farmland."

"That's a field mouse hole! And you blew it up first!"

"Father, do you think I'm that childish? She looks more like a child, and I'm much older in terms of age."

"Bah!" Ye Chen was furious, "You're talking nonsense!"

"She also blows up glass bottles, fish in the river, iron drums, and scarecrows..."

"Hahaha——Ye Chen." Father seemed to really believe Wan Qing's words, "You are one year older, you can't be so naughty, you are seventeen years old, if you were born as a year old, you are now Eighteen."

Ye Chen wanted to cry but had no tears: "Dad, do you really believe it?"

"Believe it." Father nodded affirmatively, with a smile hidden in the corner of his mouth.

"Little brat." Wan Qing continued to taunt ruthlessly.

"You rascal, throw everything on me!"

"You look like such a naughty little kid."

"...I want to set off fireworks, but I won't let you off later!"

"You really are a brat."

"Yeah, how about it, anyway, you are an adult, so there is no need to play, let me monopolize the fun! I am a kid and I like to play!"

"...Yes, you have already grasped the essence of rotten display. I congratulate you. You have become a goddamn teacher." Wan Qing rolled her eyes, took a box of spinning top fireworks and put them in her pocket, "Go Let’s go, it will be past 24 o’clock later.”

"Ah, wait for me!"

Wan Qing and Ye Chen ran towards the elevator one after the other, while her father greeted Xiao Bai, and one person and one dog walked slowly behind.

The four of them went downstairs to the apartment together. Although most of the people who lived in the apartment had returned to their hometowns, some of them stayed here.

The main road is as empty as the roads in the community-for apartments without internal roads in the community, this is just right at the moment.

A girl with braids is shaking the firework stick in her hand, shaking it in the dark night, drawing circles or drawing smooth and graceful lines one after another.

The two people next to her should be parents, they look quite young, the man wears sunglasses at night, and the woman is dressed a little bit aggressively - like a starlet who is about to go on the catwalk.

"Ah, they are two older sisters on the same floor!"

"Oh? Huayinyin?"

"Hello, sister!" Hua Yinyin 'flyed' over with a trot all the way, blushing, and tiptoed excitedly, "Didn't the sisters go back to their hometown?"

"Correct."

"Chinese New Year here?"

"That's right, I can't live here if I don't want to, unless I can fly, otherwise I won't have time to go back." Wan Qing smiled lightly, feeling that this girl who was shy last time seemed to be a little more cheerful now.

"Sister Firework Stick, do you want to play?"

"Okay."

"Here! There is also the big sister who has not green eyes and is taller, and I will give you too!"

"Okay...uh, thanks."

If the child in the first grade of junior high school is still a little immature like a primary school student, then she in the second grade of junior high school seems to have grown up a lot at once, and her whole body is full of youthful vitality, but the words she speaks still have a few words. Very childish.

Hua Yinyin's parents didn't seem to care that their daughter came here to play, they were still sticking together and playing with fireworks, not like parents, but like a young couple in love.

"Hey!" Suddenly, she hid behind Ye Chen in fear, as if she was being watched by something.

Wan Qing tilted her head and saw Xiao Bai curiously approaching her, as if she wanted to sniff her - perhaps out of curiosity.

"Don't worry, it doesn't bite."

"really?"

"Maybe?"

"Hey!" Now Hua Yinyin was even more scared, she grabbed Ye Chen's clothes tightly, "Sister, I'm afraid of dogs..."

"Don't be afraid, there's nothing to be afraid of, right, Xiaobai." Wan Qing stretched out her hand, patted its stocky head vigorously, and immediately made several muffled 'bang bang' sounds.

Xiao Bai shook his tail friendly, as if responding.

"It really doesn't bite me?"

"Looking at it like this, it shouldn't be." Wan Qing didn't give an affirmative answer, "Maybe it will bite you."

"...Wanqing, don't scare her." Ye Chen looked helpless, "It's okay, it doesn't bite, it's very docile."

"Hmm..." Hua Yinyin stretched out her little hand tentatively, touched its head lightly, and then retracted quickly.

Seeing that Xiaobai didn't respond, he wagged his tail more vigorously, and finally got the courage to stroke its head, and then stroked its chin.

"So cute."

"Yeah, very docile."

Xiao Bai rubbed Hua Yinyin with his head, and licked it with his tongue indiscriminately. Compared with her petite figure, it really seemed a bit big at this time.

In fact, it is just the size of an ordinary medium-sized dog.

"Can I hug it?" Hua Yinyin looked up expectantly.

"Yes." Ye Chen nodded vigorously.

"Wow...wow!" Xiaobai was very proactive, which flattered Hua Yinyin. The key point is that it just took a bath today, and there is no other smell when holding it. It just feels as comfortable as a big plush toy. "so cute!"

"Haha, but it's troublesome to raise it, and there are quite a lot of things."

Just as he was talking, Xiao Bai suddenly broke free from Hua Yinyin and ran towards the grass beside him.

There is no doubt that it is to solve physiological problems.

After all, I have been holding back at home all day today...

"Click, click." My father pressed the lighter several times and lit the cigarette in his mouth. "It's almost 24 o'clock."

"Take out that big firework first!" Ye Chen felt his hands and feet burning with excitement, "The New Year's bell is about to ring!"

"There is no bell tower nearby." Wan Qing gave her a sideways look.

"A metaphor, a metaphor!"

"Okay."

Hua Yinyin also raised her exquisite electronic watch and took a look: "There are still 5 minutes."

"Let's put them all up first, and let's put them one by one. It should be able to stand for half an hour?"

"more or less."

"You are similar to everything." Ye Chen gave her a white look.

"Almost." Wan Qing shook her head, answering with some complacency.

"My house also has fireworks, let's set them off together!"

"Okay, where are your fireworks?" Ye Chen asked curiously.

"There!" Hua Yinyin pointed to a pile on the ground not far away.

"...Does your family sell fireworks?"

"No, my family sells milk!"

"...a lot of fireworks."

"I bought it last year."

"last year?"

"That's right, I bought the fireworks after the Lantern Festival last year, and they were sold at a discount. They are very cheap."

"Your parents are amazing, they know how to count." Wan Qing was a little surprised, "There are so many, the scene is quite spectacular—if they are played together."

"Don't waste it all at once, it's good to let it go slowly."

"The key is to be lively and understandable."

While chatting, my father had already hung the thousand-gun cannon on a branch that had just been broken, and the other end was deeply poked into the soil.

"How many minutes?" Wan Qing first lit a spinning top firework, watched it go off and spin in place, and then flew up again with a 'swoosh', "Oh my god, are you still flying?"

"...There are 3 minutes left!"

The sound of fireworks and firecrackers can already be heard, but there are still some fragments, like the prelude to a song.

Most people are still waiting for the arrival of zero.

"The last minute!"

At this moment, both Ye Chen and Hua Yinyin started to count down, while his father was standing next to Qianxiang Pao with a cigarette in his mouth.

Wan Qing held the lighter, ready to light the 48 rounds of fireworks.

"Ten, nine, eight—!"

In the last few seconds, even Wan Qing was infected by their emotions, and shouted: "Three, two, one——!!!"

The sound of celebration and the sound of fireworks and firecrackers sounded almost at the same time, so that only the sound that was more deafening than thunder could be heard in the ears, but the voice of the people beside him could not be heard.