He lives in an old, dilapidated and small house in a deep compound in the old town.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, in the afternoon, he dressed from head to toe in the goods he had picked up from the Internet, and sat in his room with the door open.
Most of the neighbors who walked by were also elderly people. Young and middle-aged people are not used to living in this kind of old house.
Both men and women asked him: "Why do you Chinese New Year's Eve dress so seriously when you wear new clothes on the first day of the new year?"
He replied: My son ordered a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in the hotel, dressed neatly, and did not disgrace his son's face.
Everyone dispersed, this is his private matter, and it is not appropriate to inquire more.
He has been celebrating the New Year alone for several years. Chinese New Year's Eve night, the neighbors watched him do evil alone, and the home-cooked food that Suzhou people wanted to eat Chinese New Year's Eve was smoked fish, stuffed meat with oily noodles, and braised pork with dried bamboo shoots, ......It's all sent by everyone.
He has no relatives, there is. Although his parents are gone, he has an older brother and an eldest sister, and every year his brother and sister call him to eat Chinese New Year's Eve.
He didn't go, he told people that he was too poor and didn't have the face to go.
He is poor, he has been in business all his life, he has not made any money, his wife has been separated, and his pension is still at the bottom, only more than 1,000 yuan. His brother and his eldest sister, the family is complete, and the economic conditions beat him a few streets.
If he is poor, his relatives will not come and go, because he has little gas and is concerned about old historical accounts.
Six years ago, he heard reliable news that his son was getting married. When he divorced, his son was only 12 years old and was awarded to his ex-wife. Why did his ex-wife divorce him, because he saw him dead, and he had to squeeze the road to fortune if he didn't run a business, and if he didn't break his head and bleed, there would be no hospital in the world. She was extremely reluctant for him to come into contact with her son, fearing that he would infect her son with a laid-skin tone.
In the blink of an eye, his son was about to get married, he sighed, thinking about giving a decent gift to his son, thinking about it, let's send money. Poor he only had 50,000 yuan in savings, so he asked his brother and sister to borrow 2 each50,000 yuan, I want to make up 100,000 yuan. After discussing with his brother and sister, he replied to him: The money was not borrowed, but they each gave him 5,000 yuan. At that time, he was a little angry, but asked himself in turn, no matter how difficult you are, can passers-by give you 500 yuan? Is it someone's fault that you are poor? This matter is also peaceful.
He wanted to send his son with 60,000 yuan, but his ex-wife intervened in advance. Ask him what he wants to do? What can you do with 600,000 yuan? Want to fish? My son is quite comfortable now, do you want to disturb my son's family? Thinking that they will give you a pension and send you to the end of your life, I want to live in my son's big flat, and tell you that you are a man, a man with a sense of responsibility, so stay away from your son ......
From then on, he said to himself that he would say goodbye to his son in this life and this life.
After saying goodbye to his son, he also broke off contact with his brother and his eldest sister, and this is how it happened. One year, on Chinese New Year's Eve, he and his brother had a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at his eldest sister's house, and tea was held after the meal. His brother and his eldest sister asked and answered, and he knew something. His eldest sister once asked his brother to borrow a sum of money, and his brother said that the remaining 100,000 yuan did not have to be repaid......
He lived to this age before he suddenly realized, brothers and sisters are also a field of rivers and lakes, and interests are at stake, his brother said that 100,000 yuan does not have to be repaid, it is just a human transaction, the eldest sister's son is not far from a successful person, and he has done a big thing for his brother. And he didn't have the resources to share with them, so he naturally became the end of the chain of contempt.
From then on, on Chinese New Year's Eve, he avoided his brother and sister despite his thousands of calls.
This year, his son added WeChat to him through some means. The son asked him to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together.
He told his son two things.
1. Poor people do not necessarily have hatefulness, although he was not successful in his life, he did not do much evil, and he was eliminated because it was too simple, and he never thought of relying on his son to be powerful.
2. Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, your big family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, your mother and your stepfather are all sanctimonious, won't I embarrass them?
His son said to him, "If you want to trouble yourself, think about it, and I want you to come."
A call from his son gave him courage. At three o'clock, he set off from his home, drove a battery car to the hotel in the park, took nearly 60 minutes, and went to find a Chinese restaurant ......
When the hotel arrived, it was resplendent and sprinkled with gold and silver, and he didn't know where his battery car was parked, so he could only put it on the side of the road.
He walked into the lobby, did not enter the elevator, sat on the sofa in the lobby rest area in a daze, and looked at the men and women who came in and out in a daze, he didn't have the courage to go upstairs, the first time he saw his daughter-in-law, the first time he saw his grandson, his meeting gift.
After sitting for about ten minutes, he came out of the hotel, turned off his mobile phone, and rode on a battery car aimlessly, sky-high and scattered on the road like a bird.
The evening of Chinese New Year's Eve was as cold as any other day.