Chapter 245 Return to Shanghai

The night of New Year's Eve has different meanings for everyone.

For the merchants and shop owners on Wenzhong Road, this may be the day with the highest turnover of the year. The New Year is not as important as making money. It is the New Year to welcome the goods and watch the piled goods being sold continuously.

For those doctors, policemen, and firefighters on duty, this may be the most mixed day. They guard a phone and a hospital bed for the whole year.

For community security guards, there is nothing special about this day. A mobile phone, a yellowed TV, and a bowl of fried cakes are the New Year.

There are as many types of years as there are people.

For people like Zhou Rui, they are already the lucky ones among countless people to be able to put aside their work and studies for the time being, return to their hometown, and go to the lantern festival with their families.

Zhou Rui was keenly aware that after Li Wenqian's inexplicable hug, she kept her head down most of the time.

"What’s wrong with you?"

Zhou Rui rolled his eyes.

you won't be

"Want to go to the bathroom?"

Li Wenqian glared at Zhou Rui in shame, her beautiful eyes moist and clear: "It's nothing, I just feel that the scale of this year's lantern festival is a bit small."

Zhou Rui spread his hands: "Maybe Uncle Han's successor didn't take it seriously."

This possibility cannot be ruled out. After all, the Zijin Group launched "Death Rattle: Who's Going with Me" and took away many people.

When passing by a small stall, Li Wenqian's attention was attracted by the small jewelry with words engraved on it.

The gold-red wooden blocks the size of peanuts are engraved with various Chinese characters. They can be made into bracelets or pendants.

Li Wenqian picked one up and looked at it. Not to mention how exquisite the workmanship was, but the red color looked pretty good under the light, and it felt particularly festive.

"Zhou Rui, shall we buy this?"

Soon Li Wenqian found the two wooden blocks Li and Zhou. After all, they were both common surnames. She thought it was over, but Li Wenqian said she wanted to find the full name.

Zhou Rui looked at five or six large boxes, filled with densely packed small squares. It felt like there were thousands of them, and he thought, are you sure?

"Let's make them into bracelets. One can only be hung around the neck. It's too silly."

Zhou Rui: I think picking squares is more silly.

But Zhou Rui was grumbling in his heart, but his actions were honest. He curled his lips and started rummaging directly.

Li Wenqian laughed. The two of them had been looking for it for a long time.

It took so long that Yao Peili and the others were far away, so long that they almost forgot that this was a lantern festival.

Zhou Rui asked the boss: What are the words for 伱?

The boss said that he didn't know. If he found it, he would have it. If he didn't find it, he wouldn't have it.

In the end, I almost looked through it all, but still only found the words "文" and "Qian", and Zhou Rui's "Rui" could not be found.

So Li Wenqian used three small wooden blocks to thread a rope and made a bracelet, while Zhou Rui could only use the word "zhou" to make a pendant.

A small wooden block costs five yuan, and the rope comes as a gift, totaling 20 yuan.

Hanging the "zhou" wooden block around your neck feels stupid, just like wearing a work badge

Zhou Rui took it off immediately after tonight.

Unexpectedly, after taking only two steps, Li Wenqian suddenly said: "If you don't like it, give it to me."

"What are you doing here?"

"I have three bracelets that feel asymmetrical and a little loose, but four bracelets are just right."

Zhou Rui took off the pendant nonchalantly and handed it to Li Wenqian, then said, "I'm going to buy two sausages."

Li Wenqian followed Zhou Rui, took off the small piece of wood from the pendant, and put it on her bracelet.

Her hands are very skillful and she got it done in just a few strokes.

The words on the bracelet changed to "Zhou Li Wenqian".

Li Wenqian's eyes turned into crescent moons when she smiled.

Zhou Rui's voice came from not far away: "Do you want it spicy?"

Li Wenqian put on the bracelet and chased after her: "Don't be spicy."

The two families stayed at the temple fair until 11 o'clock in the evening. Then, at the invitation of Zhou Rui and Yao Peili, Li Wenqian and Li Huihua came to No. 277 Tianhe Road to work on the last project of the day.

light fireworks.

There was no one in the whole building, and the yard downstairs was casually decorated. First, there were a bunch of firecrackers, covered with red paper, and then some small things like flowers were placed. The last highlight was the fireworks bombs.

Zhou Rui and Zhou Weigang prepared one each. The two big boxes were almost different. After a final discussion, they decided to light them together to see which one was taller and which one looked better.

The three women stood at the entrance of the corridor and covered their ears. Zhou Rui and Zhou Weigang were holding their watches on both sides of the yard.

At 00:00, the two of them lit up the twister at the same time.

Beads of light were shot into the sky, and then exploded into brilliant fire.

A perfect ending to the New Year's Eve.

In the final result of the competition, Zhou Weigang's was higher and Zhou Rui's was more durable, so it was a tie.

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Although he had thought about driving back when he drove back, when the day came, Zhou Rui still felt that he was in trouble.

Since the project team had to start work in advance, Zhou Rui's winter vacation ended earlier than others, and he would start his return trip on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. However, Li Wenqian and the others still had more than ten days to play.

So Zhou Rui had to drive back alone.

The family parted ways downstairs. Yao Peili and Zhou Weigang drove to Shenzhen and then took a plane to Hainan to start their "wedding trip", while Zhou Rui set off back to Shanghai.

Nothing happened along the way. The navigation journey was 19 hours. Zhou Rui rested for one night in Fujian Province and arrived in Shanghai the next night.

After going back and forth, the mileage of the new car exceeded 3,000 kilometers, so Zhou Rui simply stopped at the 4S store for the first maintenance.

After returning to Jiangwan Hanlin, Zhou Rui opened the window to dissipate the smell and had a good rest. Tomorrow, the eighth day of the first lunar month, is when the project team will start working.

All the instruments and personnel have been equipped. The goal this time is to reproduce the "Four Elephants" structure coating and accumulate for subsequent large-scale preparation.

Mr. Mou estimated that "reproduction" would take half a year to two years, and mature preparation would be even more difficult to say.

When he got up in the morning, Zhou Rui put on his hand-woven scarf again and walked out of Jiangwan Hanlin. For students, the eighth day of the first lunar month was still a holiday, so the Wuxingchang University District was a bit desolate.

Most of the businesses on University Road were empty, and the school cafeteria was not open. Zhou Rui walked all the way to the vicinity of Wanda before finding a place to have breakfast.

Under the second floor of the materials, Zhou Rui saw the tall and cold figure again.

Han Ziyin was also wearing a windbreaker with a bright red scarf around her neck.

It is exactly the same as Zhou Rui's outfit.

Zhou Rui asked curiously: "You knitted another one?"

Han Ziyin took off the warm scarf from her neck and exchanged it with Zhou Rui's: "I still feel that the last one was not knitted well, so I tried it again during the winter vacation."

Zhou Rui felt the temperature of the new scarf.

He touched it with his fingertips. Although it still had the roughness of a hand-knitted scarf, the stitches were much finer and smoother.

Han Ziyin must have spent a lot of time on it.

While he was stunned, Han Ziyin had already taken two steps and waved to Zhou Rui: "Let's go, my great scientist."

Zhou Rui smiled slightly: "Okay, my little assistant."