
Fireworks Go South, the Way Home is the New Year
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Three years later, the high-speed train carried Xu Ye through most of China, from the office buildings in Beijing back to the fireworks alleys in Lingnan. On the twenty-seventh of the twelfth lunar month, he dragged his suitcase full of new year's goods and set foot on the humid land of his hometown again. My father picked me up in silence, my mother hid her tears under her apron, and my grandma touched his hand that said he had lost weight. In the New Year market, he ran into Xu Nian, who had always followed him when he was a child - the girl who now teaches in the county town and wears a red scarf. In the ancestral hall, the children joked about the "night dog", the morning heat of killing the New Year pig, and the yellowing blessings hidden in the records of old classmates. During the Spring Festival when mobile phones are no longer bombarded with work messages, Xu Ye slowly discovered: The ordinary life he once desperately escaped from is now the warm place he longs for most. And some fate, like the fireworks on New Year's Eve, may leave a longer-lasting glimmer after a short period of brilliance. In this fast-paced era, we all need a "New Year celebration". Let yourself remember: no matter how far you go, there is always someone waiting for you to come back.
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