Unlike when he tried to touch his cell phone during his lifetime, Uncle Li made a very quick decision this time and made a firm decision. He said that he would not go home for the New Year, so he would not go home. He didn't even go away to take a look at his children and grandchildren, and did not secretly make an appointment with Aunt Li to meet. Aunt Li said a few words and silently expressed his support. In this way, Uncle Li must have spent the Spring Festival in Yao City.

During the Spring Festival in previous years, Aunt Li directed him to clean up, buy New Year’s goods, arrange home decorations, and prepare New Year’s Eve dinner... Aunt Li is not around now and is in the dormitory room, so Uncle Li didn’t know how to prepare for this year’s Spring Festival.

When it comes to cleaning, Li Yun cleans every day, and is more diligent than the best cleaning aunt.

When it comes to buying New Year’s goods, they have two ghosts and two monsters in a room, Yi Xin can make some dietary meal replacements. Others occasionally cook, but the results are not satisfactory. The four of them don’t like to eat roasted goods such as melon seeds and peanuts and the kind of mixed candy with festive packaging. No one will come to greet them, so there is no need to prepare snacks to entertain guests.

Let’s talk about decorating the room, posting some Spring Festival couplets, and hanging a few red lanterns. Uncle Li thought it well, and considered that four people in the room had different aesthetics, so he sought the opinions of three other colleagues.

"I don't care." Xue Xiaolian smiled, not like he was a polite person, but it doesn't matter. After saying that, she closed her eyes and continued to bask in the sun.

I don’t know where she can get sunbathing during this cloudy winter day.

"Vulgar." Yi Xin has been having a bad temper for a while. After complaining, she asked, "Has that person on the Internet found a way? Can you post an expert number?"

"He is still inquiring." Uncle Li replied, asking again, "It's pretty good to post the word "Fu"? I see that the zodiac signs of cartoons are posted in the small shops outside now."

"It's up to you. Don't stick it to my door." Yi Xin still disliked him.

Uncle Li was poured two basins of cold water in succession and turned to look at Li Yun.

"Everything is OK." Li Yun also didn't care about this.

During the Chinese New Year, his family would post Spring Festival couplets, but the Spring Festival couplets were either included in the New Year gift packages sent by their parents' company, or small gifts from institutions such as banks and insurance companies. The red Spring Festival couplets, with the company name printed on the edges of the character "Fu". One year when he was in elementary school, the Spring Festival couplet set prepared by his father's company was particularly "conscious" and hid the company's name in the Spring Festival couplets. The blessings were not much, and the publicity of corporate culture was overflowing, which made it look very stupid. Li Yun couldn't remember what the content was, and only remembered that the Spring Festival couplets were posted at his doorstep for two years. The next year, the second year, the one was not torn off. When it was torn off, the two Spring Festival couplets had faded.

Li Yun smiled and told Uncle Li about this, making Uncle Li laugh as well.

After laughing, Uncle Li sighed in his heart.

He remembered that the Spring Festival couplets from his family in previous years were also given by others. Three children, plus the old couple, had to receive some messy gifts. Aunt Li said on the phone that the Spring Festival couplets were given by the residents of their community's calligraphy class this year. Their copy was written by an old lady in Building 18 or 19. She had just started class one year and the old lady wrote very beautifully.

Thinking of this, Uncle Li always felt that buying Spring Festival couplets was particularly boring, so he stopped this plan.

As for the New Year’s Eve dinner, Uncle Li knew that it was impossible for the four of them to cook by themselves. When they had to book outside, the New Year’s Eve dinners in major restaurants had already been sold.

Uncle Li could have imagined that this year's Spring Festival, he might have to eat takeout and spend it in a deserted state.

He noticed his loss and immediately adjusted his mood.

This is also a rare experience. In the past, the Spring Festival was busy and busy. I would feel a little different when I celebrated the Spring Festival like this.

Uncle Li persuaded himself like this, but when he received a call from Yin Shikang, he still felt excited, making him know that he still hoped to celebrate the Spring Festival lively.

"...The Third Hospital holds activities every New Year's Eve, and there are activities for a few days during the Spring Festival. There are many patients in the hospital who cannot go home, as well as doctors and nurses on duty... We also celebrate the New Year in the Third Hospital, and there are activities every year. Do you want to come?"

Yin Shikang laughed loudly, as if he was greeting an old friend, with a friendly and casual tone.

Uncle Li was immediately moved.

"I have to ask the three of them. They... Yi Xin and Xue Xiaolian both came, is that okay?" Uncle Li was slightly stumbled.

Needless to say, Yi Xin's temper is not like the kind of person who can integrate into the party atmosphere. With the two of them, Uncle Li is afraid that their company and his group will go, and instead mess up the New Year's party in the Third Hospital.

"No problem, no problem." Yin Shikang agreed immediately, "The more people, the more lively it is. The New Year is going to be lively. And..." He paused, "We will feel more at ease when they come. You know, there are so many ghosts outside the Third Hospital recently. They are all thinking about the New Year. I am afraid that something will happen. You are all here, so I feel relieved."

Uncle Li smiled and then felt a little glad that they met Yin Shikang early. Otherwise, this year's Spring Festival would be really hard to bear.

Uncle Li thought about this and after hanging up the phone, he told Li Yun and the others what happened.

Li Yun agreed immediately, but Yi Xin was playing with a thick medical book without saying a word.

Uncle Li looked at Xue Xiaolian.

Xue Xiaolian closed her eyes and her eyelashes cast a shadow.

"I won't go. The boss may come back during the Chinese New Year." Xue Xiaolian replied.

This answer was unexpected.

Uncle Li looked at Xue Xiaolian in a daze. He never considered his boss in his New Year's plan.

Thinking of the salary he received over the past few months and the leisurely life of using computers for free. He immediately remembered another thing. He "joined" last year, but at the end of the year it was over and over again, completely forgot about the summary at the end of the year. In this blink of an eye, the Spring Festival is coming. The company has not said that it would submit a summary report, and no one has sorted out the company's situation this year.

Uncle Li felt deeply uneasy.

Such a lazy working environment made him very uncomfortable.

If he hadn't retired long ago and had been used to retirement life, he would have noticed that something was wrong long ago.

Uncle Li fell into deep reflection.

Even if the company does not require it, he personally is planning to write a summary for a year. In the past six months, too many things have happened and too many ideas to be sorted out.

Li Yun, the young man, did not have the mental awareness of an old comrade like Uncle Li, and asked Xue Xiaolian: "Is the boss going back? He is going back for the New Year?"

"We're not the New Year." Xue Xiaolian gave a negative answer, "The only one who wants to celebrate the New Year is the New Year beast. The New Year beast has long disappeared."

Li Yun choked and didn't know how to answer the conversation.

"Just come back and see." Fortunately, Xue Xiaolian continued to talk to herself, "After this place is... home, right?"

At the end of the day, Xue Xiaolian's tone was not very certain. After she finished speaking, she laughed.

Yi Xin curled her lips.

"Does he know what happened recently?" Li Yun asked.

"Are you talking about the many lonely ghosts that emerged?" Xue Xiaolian smiled again, finally opened her eyes, looked at Li Yun, stretched her cervical spine, stretched her slender neck, lay down again, closed her eyes, "There is nothing special about Yao City, every city is different and the same. The boss likes to soar everywhere, not hiding in the deep mountains and forests to retreat."

Li Yun's heart skipped a beat and a feeling of irritability arose.

"It's no big deal." Xue Xiaolian said comfortingly, "When the Heaven and the Underworld disappeared, the world was still fine-oh, the world was fighting at that time. But it was fine."

Li Yun's shoulders drooped, and his whole body seemed to have been removed from his bones. He could only lean on the back of the chair and smiled helplessly.

"You go to the Third Hospital to play. Don't care about the boss's affairs. He may not necessarily come back." Xue Xiaolian said understandingly, "I don't like the hospital, so I won't go."

Uncle Li nodded and looked at Yi Xin, the only one who did not give a reply.

Yi Xin said perfunctorily: "It depends on the mood that day." She lowered her head again, flipping through the books spread out on the table, and wondering how many words she read in.

On New Year's Eve, early in the morning, Uncle Li called Li Yun.

After Li Yun finished washing up, he saw Uncle Li standing in front of Yi Xin's door, so he took the initiative to step forward and knocked on Yi Xin's door.

In the room, the moans and moans of the mummies were wailing one after another, as if they were woken up by Li Yun.

Uncle Li couldn't hear the sound, so he thought Yi Xin hadn't gotten up yet, "Do you want to knock on the door again and scream her? Or..."

"She is awake." Li Yun said.

He heard the tone of the mummies changing.

Among them, there was the squeaking sound of the bed being squeezed, followed by a burst of footsteps.

Yi Xin was sleepy and her plush pajamas wrapped her whole body. She looked like she had gained weight, but she couldn't lift her body.

"What are you doing? That guy on the Internet contacts you?" Yi Xin asked, with expectation in his tone, like a child who was woken up early during the Chinese New Year, waiting for his parents to give him red envelopes.

Li Yun and Uncle Li looked at each other.

Uncle Li replied awkwardly: "No. We are going to the Third Hospital, you..."

Yi Xin's face suddenly sank, just like the half-old child who was taken away by his parents.

Bang.

The door panel was closed in front of Li Yun and Uncle Li, and almost knocked open the door frame and hit the tip of the two of them.

Li Yun heard the painful shouts in the room louder and louder.

This time, even Uncle Li heard some movement.

"Let's go." Li Yun said, "She's coming, she will come."

Uncle Li said "ah" and asked again: "Her boyfriend, don't he come back for the New Year?"

"Well. I won't come back during the Chinese New Year."

"Didn't make a phone call?"

"Probably not." Li Yun said uncertainly.

He only knew that Yi Xin was prone to explosiveness and anger in the past two days, and he didn't see a pink bubble around him, but only a smell of blood came out.

If it weren't for sure that there wasn't an extra mummy in Yi Xin's room, Li Yun would have suspected that Yi Xin had secretly gone to Beijing and sucked her boyfriend dry.

Li Yun and Uncle Li were preparing to attend the New Year’s Eve party organized by Yin Shikang, so naturally they didn’t need to bring their ID cards.

The buses were very crowded on New Year's Eve, and there were many shops on the street, but there were still many people. Pedestrians and passengers, wearing thick winter clothes and carrying large and small gift boxes, were filled with space.

When passing through some residential communities, Li Yun saw the joyful people and cold and dull ghosts in the house through the window glass.

"It's really changed." Li Yun took a breath, and no mist formed in the winter air.

Uncle Li carefully grabbed the bulge on the roof of the car and asked, "What?"

"There are so many ghosts." Li Yun sat firmly on the roof of the car, his body swaying slightly as the bus drove.

Uncle Li couldn't see the ghosts hiding in the residential houses, and looked down at the streets, and saw all living people.

"I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing." Uncle Li suddenly said.

Li Yun smiled bitterly, "How could this be a good thing?"
To be continued...