System: Master Your Life-Chapter 492 - 115 New Year’s Eve Night_3
"Just go inside the courtyard to see, don’t get too close."
Xu Lin reminded Rong Xiyi.
"Okay, I’m going inside the courtyard."
Rong Xiyi quickly returned to the courtyard, standing together with Ms. Ren.
Meanwhile, Xu Cheng was standing not far away, looking at the sky while smoking, and he didn’t speak.
Ms. Ren instructed, "Xu Lin, be careful with the fireworks, okay?"
"Don’t worry!"
Xu Lin replied and started to light all the fireworks one by one.
biu!
biu!
The sound of fireworks ascending into the sky appeared.
Then there were loud booms, which was the sound of fireworks exploding in the sky.
In an instant, the entire sky lit up, dazzling and beautiful in a kaleidoscope of colors.
"So beautiful!"
Rong Xiyi exclaimed and quickly used her phone to record it.
She really enjoyed this feeling of New Year, being surrounded by people she loved and cared about, that was enough.
She didn’t think much, she wasn’t greedy.
This was a feeling Rong Xiyi hadn’t had during New Year in past years; ever since her mother passed away, she hadn’t felt this kind of happiness in a long time.
"Really beautiful!"
Ms. Ren also commented with a sigh, looking around, family was all there, happiness was right by her side.
The meaning of New Year seemed to lie in this.
Xu Cheng held a cigarette, just looking at the sky, still not speaking.
Xu Lin, not far away, took out his phone and also recorded a video of the fireworks until they ended.
Of course, Xu Lin didn’t just record it because the fireworks were pretty.
After recording the video, Xu Lin sent it separately to Ning Yuhuan and Chi Linyue.
He sent to Ning Yuhuan, "Are there fireworks at home?"
To Chi Linyue, Xu Lin sent, "Dear Miss Chi, happy New Year’s Eve."
Before long, a message from Ning Yuhuan arrived.
"No, my family didn’t buy fireworks, we just watch others set them off!"
Ning Yuhuan also recorded a video of other people’s fireworks, but it wasn’t as good-looking as Xu Lin’s, which cost over two thousand and had several fireworks set off together, incomparable to those costing dozens or a couple of hundred.
"Honey, your fireworks are really nice!"
"As long as they’re nice, happy New Year’s Eve."
"Honey, happy New Year’s Eve!"
After chatting with Ning Yuhuan for a while, a message from the big sister came too.
"Ah, I can’t set off fireworks here."
"Fireworks are truly beautiful!"
"I’m envious you can set off fireworks!"
"Happy New Year’s Eve!"
Chi Linyue sent four messages in a row.
"Happy New Year’s Eve!"
Xu Lin replied as well.
Chatted for a while.
The four of them decided to go out for a walk around the village.
And as for the Spring Festival Gala?
Xu Lin’s family and even their village hardly watched it; many families just had the TV on for some background sound.
This time of the New Year’s Eve night, there were still quite a few people outside, so it was lively.
In Xu Lin’s village, there were quite a lot of people, and in today’s rural areas where bachelors were common, there were relatively few in this village who were still unmarried at an older age.
Many had made a good living, so getting married wasn’t a problem.
With more people getting married, naturally, there were more children.
So when Xu Lin and the others went out, they saw many children, estimating around twenty or thirty, and that’s just a portion of the village’s children. After all, like Xu Lin’s four cousins combined had eight children.
The group wandered outside, stopping now and then, looking around, and Xu Cheng and Ms. Ren chatted with the villagers occasionally. Unknowingly, more than an hour passed.
At ten o’clock in the evening, everyone returned home.
Xu Lin and the others didn’t go to sleep either.
They still had to wait for midnight to celebrate the New Year.
"If you’re tired, go to sleep."
Xu Lin saw Rong Xiyi yawning as she sat on the stool.
The two of them were sitting on a low stone stool outside the courtyard at that moment.
"No, I want to stay up for the New Year too!"
"It’s just setting off some firecrackers and offering incense, nothing special about celebrating the New Year."
"I just want to watch!"
Classmate Rong pouted, "Xu Lin, play Landlord with me!"
She showed her phone playing Landlord, Xu Lin, feeling bored, decided to play with her.
It was quite cold outside at night, around eleven degrees, with wind, making it feel even colder.
Rong Xiyi leaned next to Xu Lin, the two of them playing Landlord on their phones together.
This game really passed the time, and before they knew it, over an hour had passed, and it was almost midnight.
Xu Lin went with the old man to offer incense, followed by setting off firecrackers.
At the same time, the entire village was setting off firecrackers, and so were the nearby villages, almost like a synchronized event. The crackling sounds were so loud they seemed like they could burst people’s eardrums.
"Xu Lin, so many people setting off firecrackers, it’s too lively!"
Rong Xiyi found it quite novel, standing there cheering.
She grew up in the city and only went to the countryside once with her parents when she was a child, but at that time, Rong Xiyi didn’t feel much of the New Year’s spirit. She remembered her father didn’t seem to like her much, so she always stayed with her mother.
Her mother once got angry for unknown reasons and said that her grandparents didn’t like the two of them.
So later on, Rong Xiyi and her mother never went back to her father’s hometown in the countryside.
The New Year’s spirit was something quite new and intriguing for Rong Xiyi.
Xu Lin watched her cheer and didn’t know why. He didn’t think too much about it either, because, for Xu Lin, it was quite normal. Sometimes he even found the firecrackers too loud, like now. They could go on for over ten minutes or even longer, very loud and noisy.
"Why so happy?"
"It’s New Year, of course I’m happy!"
Rong Xiyi timed it perfectly, and as soon as it struck midnight,
she cupped her hands like a speaker and shouted to Xu Lin, "Xu Lin, Happy New Year!"
"Happy New Year!"
