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Chinese New Year (Spring Festival)

TLN: Chinese New Year = CNY

Today is Chinese New Year, Zhang Xiao Qiang’s first Chinese New Year since the apocalypse, a lonely Chinese New Year Reer, everyone in the ho Xiao Qiang would take a warm shower and put on new clothes, and see his parents prepare a bigon the floor weakly kicking, scattered feathers were gently fluttering in the air Mother had a bucket of hot water ready to scald the rooster Zhang Xiao Qiang and his sister were looking on while nibbling on s, the chicken was just hanging upside down, blood dripping along the beak onto the ground, leaving a red trail The whole rooster fro clockwise, until it , its wings fluttered in the pail, and so and his sister screa them not to dirty their new clothes

On normal days, father’s sole the plate of spring rolls that rapped yesterday, keeping it beside the pan while watching the heat, hu and his sister sit nearby singing along The people on the streets were also in a hurry to get hoet home a little earlier to spend CNY with their fae red firecracker and hung it outside Zhang Xiao Qiang was like a tail behind father’s back, following hi her ears and looking out

“crackle crackle”the fireworks started, the faether, the table had a variety of dishes, father poured himself a cup of rice wine and slowly sipped it Mother was holding a rice bowl talking, about how they needed to get up early to and his sister were eating the food in largebetween the dishes

after the bigand his sister sat near the white charcoal fire, eating ht event” Father was now sitting in thea sip fro xiao qiang and his sister laughed heartily, the parents had s of the past, and of the current siatuion, a sadness filled his heart

The apocalyptic CNYat his phone by his pillow, he wished that sos text, even if it was just a 1008 telecoms of despair started to grow, the growing loneliness was going to o crazy, he picked up the phone and threw it on the ground [My dad’s not a phone!]

“pa da…”the phone hit the ground and split into 3 parts, the ered bounce before falling back down and rolling to one side Zhang Xiao Qiang held his head and sat on the edge of the bed, blankly staring at the phone!!!

Not knowing how long had past, his emotions started to stabilize, he picked up the bottle next to the co the cockroach inside cheerfully running around, Zhang Xiao Qiangs ain

At least he was alive, at least he could stand here and leisurely toy with the cockroach, his luck was better than at least 90 of the worlds, and he could still breathe this air that probably wasn’t fresh

“haha!!!!!!!” Zhang Xiao Qiang laughed at hiht he was an experienced recluse, never had any empathy, why did he suddenly feel all moody and melancholic at the end of the world?

It was CNY today, China’s most important event, why couldn’t he celebrate it hi looked at his watch, it was alet busy, he used the bottled water and started to boil it, he took the luxury of a bath, this was the first ti refreshed he put on so the dirty water fro room