Xu Lin didn't have strong feelings about the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Maybe it was because there weren't many people in his family.
Returning from Yu Xinyan's place, Xu Lin noticed it was almost ten o'clock.
The manuscript fee refreshes a bit past ten this morning, he hadn't forgotten that.
For his first manuscript fee in life, Xu Lin was quite looking forward to it, although it wasn't yet the fee after the official release.
In the morning, several people sent Xu Lin messages wishing him a happy Mid-Autumn Festival.
Xu Lin needed to reply to them.
First, it was Ning Yuhuan, who sent a message around six in the morning.
"Hubby, happy Mid-Autumn Festival!"
"Senior, happy Mid-Autumn Festival."
"Hubby, I'm thinking of you!"
Ning Yuhuan replied instantly, but it was a voice message.
Xu Lin sent a Zhang Fei chibi meme back: "Me too.jpg"
Ning Yuhuan said again: "Miss you a lot!"
Xu Lin: "Don't miss me yet, what are you eating tonight?"
Ning Yuhuan: "Chicken, free-range chicken, have you tried it? My family raised it!"
Ning Yuhuan's family is in Eastern Guangdong Province, and in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, they usually kill chickens or ducks for festivals.
Yesterday, Ning Yuhuan had already returned to her rural hometown.
Besides, Yu Xinyan's family of three also returned to their rural home for the festival.
Xu Lin and Ms. Ren didn't go back to the countryside, as for Xu Lin, his grandparents had passed away, and his father wasn't home, so he found no point in going back.
Xu Lin grew up in the city, so he didn't have much attachment to the countryside.
But people are like that, unless you grew up in the countryside, like Yu Jianhua's generation, they grew up in the countryside and go back every festival, even if their homes are shabby, it's a sentiment of attachment to one's roots inherent in Chinese people.
Xu Lin chatted with the senior a while, then clicked into Chi Linyue's message.
Chi Linyue also sent Xu Lin Mid-Autumn blessings along with a 3000 yuan red envelope.
"Can you receive red envelopes during Mid-Autumn?"
Xu Lin happily accepted.
Xu Lin: "Thank you, big sister, wishing you the vast happiness of the eastern seas and a long life healthy as the southern mountains..."
Xu Lin sent a string of idioms.
Chi Linyue: "Knock on the head.jpg Little friend, happy Mid-Autumn!"
Xu Lin: "Big friend!"
Chi Linyue: "How big? Sneaky smile.jpg"
Big sister is so flirtatious, Xu Lin chatted with her for a while too.
Lei Haolong also sent a message: "Good buddy, happy Mid-Autumn!"
Xu Lin sent a red envelope back to him.
Lei Haolong: "Lustful.jpg×6."
Lei Haolong: "Good buddy!"
Lei Haolong excitedly clicked to receive the red envelope, only to find it was 10 yuan.
Lei Haolong: "Damn! Xu Lin, you jerk, 10 yuan can't even buy McDonald's spicy wings! The delivery fee is already 6 yuan!"
Xu Lin: "If you don't want it, give it back!"
Lei Haolong: "No way!"
Xu Lin: "By the way, pass my Mid-Autumn wishes to your uncle and aunt!"
Lei Haolong: "Also tell your aunt a happy Mid-Autumn!"
The two exchanged blessings.
Xu Lin then opened Rong Xiyi's message.
Rong Xiyi stayed at school during the holiday, only went out to play during the day, and returned to the dorm at night.
During the National Day holiday, many people went home, and Rong Xiyi had no company at all.
At eight-something, Rong Xiyi sent Mid-Autumn wishes to Xu Lin.
Xu Lin also sent back a blessing.
Rong Xiyi quickly replied: "What are you doing?"
Xu Lin: "Busy."
Rong Xiyi: "Oh."
On the other side, only Rong Xiyi was in her dorm.
In her dorm, all four beds had curtains set up, like many girls' dorms, it was dark inside the curtains, and Rong Xiyi lay inside like a nugatory shut-in.
Buzz, buzz...
A while later, Xu Lin's message came.
Rong Xiyi found it was a voice message.
She thought Xu Lin said something, but when she opened the voice message, it was a very pleasant woman's voice.
"Baby, happy Mid-Autumn!"
Hearing the voice message, Rong Xiyi suddenly sat up from her bed and pulled open the curtain.
"Is this the girl from last time?"
Ms. Ren asked Xu Lin, last time Xu Lin told her, "Mom, I miss you."
Ms. Ren felt puzzled because it didn't seem likely Xu Lin would send such a thing, but she didn't think much at the time.
"It's her."
"Why send this?"
"She's from a single-parent family, her mom passed away, and there are probably conflicts at home, she didn't go back for Mid-Autumn, so she needs a comforting figure I guess."
"I see..."
So Ms. Ren sent a voice message back.
Soon, a message came from Rong Xiyi.
"Auntie, happy Mid-Autumn!"
"Mm-hmm, happy Mid-Autumn, remember to eat well tonight!"
Ms. Ren advised.
"Auntie, I know!"
Ms. Ren finished listening, her maternal instincts overflowing, "Xu Lin, what would happen if mom were gone?"
"Don't know, you're not gone yet."
"Darn you, you can't talk!"
Ms. Ren glared at Xu Lin.
"What's her name?"
"Rong Xiyi."
Xu Lin wrote her name down.
Ms. Ren felt a bit sad, "It's really tough, her mom passed away, having conflicts with her family, all alone in Jiangdu, next time when I go to Jiangdu, I'll visit her..."
"Maybe not!"
"I don't care!"
"Then do as you wish."
Ms. Ren glared at him again, "I'm going out, want to come along?"
"Not going."
Ren Yan was going to meet up with a bunch of women in their thirties and forties today, women from her old social circle around here, all of them had families, busy with their own things, it was rare to gather, Xu Lin definitely wouldn't follow, a group of women gathering together, chattering about who knows what, probably just messy family stuff.
Soon, Ren Yan went out, and before leaving, she reminded Xu Lin to tell Rong Xiyi to have a good dinner.
"My mom said for you to have a good dinner tonight!"
Xu Lin sent it to Rong Xiyi.
"Xu Lin, thank you!"
Already energized, Rong Xiyi was very touched, almost unable to hold back tears, Xu Lin didn't know what was happening on her side, just having talked to her a bit.
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