Mid-Autumn Festival?
Zhang Zian was shocked, and then his heart tightened. He almost cried.
The Mid-Autumn Festival had actually passed a month ago. At that time, Grandpa Tea was not here yet. Zhang Zian was so busy that he forgot about it. When he realized it, the Mid-Autumn Festival was already over.
And who was he going to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival with? His parents had passed away, and his other distant relatives were in other places, so he did not feel regretful. After all, it was just a festival.
"Mid-Autumn Festival?" Xinghai tilted her head and asked.
"Ha-ha, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in China. It represents harvest and reunion. It is one of the most important festivals of the year. The custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival is to admire the moon and eat mooncakes. Although today is not the Mid-Autumn Festival, the full moon hanging in the sky is no different. We don't have to stick to those small details. It's going to be very windy and frosty from now on, and we're vulnerable to cold. It's no longer a good time to admire the moon. So, we should celebrate today as the Mid-Autumn Festival. "Old Time Tea laughed.
Zhang Zian lowered his head, and when he looked up again, he smiled and said, "It is rare that Grandpa Tea is in the mood. Xinghai and Fina have never experienced the Mid-Autumn Festival, right? Let's celebrate it today! The Mid-Autumn Festival should be about admiring the moon and the osmanthus. Grandpa Tea, I will buy some osmanthus tea for you. "
Old Time Tea smiled. "That's my wish. I wouldn't dare to invite you!"
"Wait a minute. I will be back soon." Zhang Zian left in a hurry.
Old Time Tea looked at his back with a smile, not knowing how many more Mid-Autumn Festivals it could spend with him.
"What is the Mid-Autumn Festival? Don't talk nonsense that I don't understand! "Fina felt left out and couldn't help but lose her temper.
"Your Majesty, please calm down. In a word, the Mid-Autumn Festival is a day for family reunion, "Old Time Tea said. Old Time Tea said, "Even those who are thousands of miles away will rush home on this day to reminisce about their family ties and to comfort their longing."
Fina thought for a moment, "But Zhang Zian's family has passed away."
"Yes, but aren't we the same?" Old Time Tea's eyes were full of nostalgia, and it said sadly, "Old friends are gone, and who will drink tea with me at noon? This old man's family and comrades have all died, leaving this old man alone in this world. "
It remembered that person, the young man who studied hard every day. It squatted on the wall and looked at him silently. It watched him grow up, watched him become a Guru, but in the end, he walked a different path from it.
Fei Na was slightly absent-minded. Its thoughts traveled through thousands of years, and in its mind, the figure that had haunted it appeared again. The figure that had abandoned it for the sake of greatness and glory. Her lips opened and closed, as if to say: "Fina, wait for me to come back, then we will never be separated."
Yes, they had all lost the most important person in the past. They had all thought that they would never be separated from that person. That person was like a family member, like a bloodline.
"Isn't it enough to find a new family?" Xinghai suddenly said. Because its mind was very pure, it could often surpass the interference of distracting thoughts and directly get to the essence of the problem.
Fei Na woke up from his memories and stared blankly at the sea of stars. "No, to me, she is irreplaceable..."
"It can't be replaced, and it doesn't need to be replaced." Old Time Tea smiled. "Who says it has to be replaced? Family is not lovers. There is more than one. "
Fei Na lowered its head and pondered. Their figures overlapped in its mind. Sometimes they became one, and sometimes they went to two extremes. It couldn't understand at the moment, but it had time to think.
After a while, Zhang Zian came back with a bag of tea in his left hand and a bunch of osmanthus flowers in his right.
"I went to two flower shops, and finally found one that sells osmanthus flowers. We don't have osmanthus trees here, so we have to make do with this. "As he spoke, he suddenly realized that the atmosphere in the shop was a bit strange.
"What's wrong?" he asked in confusion. He had only been out for a short while, why did he feel that the atmosphere in the shop had changed?
"Nothing, we were just discussing whether our new partner is easy to get along with," Old Time Tea said gently.
Zhang Zian believed it and raised the osmanthus flowers in his hand. "I will find a vase and make a pot of osmanthus tea. Let's go to the roof and admire the moon."
There was a small door on the ceiling of the storage room that led to the roof. After setting up a ladder and unlocking the door, a cold round moon shone bright light into the room.
He carried the kettle and walked to the roof with a towel over his shoulder.
There wasn't much debris on the roof. There was a table and four chairs in the middle of the room. His parents used to move them up there. Their family often came up here to cool off on summer and autumn nights. There was a small iron tray on the table, and there was a pile of black stuff on the tray. It was the shape of mosquito coils that had been soaked in the rain.
After he went to college and started working in another city, his parents still kept the habit of cooling off on the roof. Usually, they would put away the table and chairs after the Mid-Autumn Festival. However …
Zhang Zian put the kettle on the ground and took the towel off his shoulder to wipe the table and the chairs. The white towel was quickly dyed black. He poured water from the kettle to rinse off the dirt on the towel. He wiped it again and again until it was clean.
He stood up and took a deep breath of the cold air.
The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. Even if there were no lights on the roof, the visibility was very good.
Zhang Zian walked to the edge of the roof, which was facing the street. He saw that the kebab stand across the street was still open. Uncle Li and Aunt Li were greeting the customers attentively, packing skewers of hot kebabs for the customers to take away. In the past, the couple also had smiles on their faces, but this smile was obviously different. It was a smile with peace of mind, full of hope and longing.
He walked counterclockwise to the other side of the roof. Sun Xiaomeng's pet clinic was still on. He heard that her peak hours were every night. She had to work nearly 12 hours a day because of all kinds of emergency appointments. Some of the pets in the pet shop had been transferred to her clinic ward. He sent Wang Qian and Li Kun there to clean and clean every day.
Continuing to walk counterclockwise, he saw that the green field looked like it was sprinkled with a layer of silver powder under the moonlight. Most of the few street lights in the green field were not on, and the few lights that were on were very dim, which made the deep part of the green field look a bit gloomy and treacherous. He could also faintly hear the sound of wild cats tearing each other.
When he came to the end of the green field, he looked at the intersection of the south entrance of Zhonghua Road. There were two rows of private cars waiting for the red light. An ambulance with flashing blue lights sped over, honking its horn repeatedly. The private cars consciously made way for it, so that the ambulance could pass first.
He walked back to the small door and shouted, "You can come up now."
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