Golden Greenery

The Spring Festival of 2016 came neither early nor late. It was celebrated just after the beginning of spring in early February.

The once-in-a-century heavy snow stopped late at night on the last day at the end of last year. A month has passed, and the snow has slowly melted little by little, leaving the early spring still cold.

A lot of snow has been pushed to the roadside, and some of it has frozen into solid ice lumps, crystal clear like many strange-shaped ice sculptures, and some of them look a little dirty, and people passing by will find it disgusting.

But children will not dislike it. During the Chinese New Year, they took dismantled firecrackers and stuffed them into snow nests. After lighting them, they ran away and covered their ears. When the snow was blown up, they yelled and vented. Happy New Year.

The small town of Zhuo Family Courtyard can be seen from the mountain ring road. The snow on the ground has also been cleared away. Although the ground in the town has not been hardened, it is not muddy in the sub-zero temperature.

The town appeared spontaneously in March and April last year. In fact, it is not a town in the true sense, it is just an open space where everyone can gather and exercise.

In the summer, everyone plays small-field football here, and young musicians set up their own small bands to play and sing. Vendors don’t miss it either, they push around with barbecue stalls and beer, making the fun here even more lively.

When young people gather together, it is inevitable that they will bump into each other sometimes. Occasionally, a young man will stare and shake his fist, but as long as someone shouts angrily: Zhuoyang is watching, do you want to be shameless?

The conflict will end immediately, the young man will shrug his shoulders angrily, walk away in a boring way, and maybe have a beer together later.

The town started with a young man named Chen Jingxi. He and his girlfriend came here with flowers, and then planted many flowers. After everyone turned this place into a town that was not a small town and a world of flowers, they called Chen Jingxi the ‘mayor’.

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Mayor Chen Jingxi and Lin Jiajia covered themselves with down jackets like two white bears, and came to the town carrying a bag full of firecrackers of various colors. Both of them are still under eighteen years old, so they are still big children.

Chen Jingxi and Lin Jiajia came here in February last year and rented a small two-bedroom apartment on the second floor built by nearby villagers, and they have lived there until now.

The surrounding villages and towns are filled with people from all over the country, and they all come for Zhuoyang. After the lively summer, the weather quickly turns cooler. Xi'an is a place without autumn, so after wearing short sleeves, you need to wear cotton-padded clothes.

Many people have left here one after another. Some people don't like the cold, and some people have to leave because they have to run for their lives. At the end of the year, the heavy snow drove almost everyone away. Like Chen Jingxi, there were only less than a hundred people left who chose to stick to it.

When they left, they said to Chen Jingxi: Mayor, I will come back when the weather gets warm. I will definitely come back.

But many people came back within a few days. The snow stopped but it was the coldest time of the year. They returned here just after New Year's Day.

Because Zhuoyang woke up.

Chen Jingxi and the others pushed aside the snow in the town, cleared out the venue, and continued to brave the cold every day to come here to sing and play football. There were no flowers in winter, so they planted many evergreens around them, dotting the snow-white world.

Chen Jingxi started live streaming in early April last year, introducing everything about the town to the world every day, recording the life here, and recording everyone's blessings to Zhuo Yang.

Half of the users who watched the live broadcast did so to scold Chen Jingxi.

In October of the previous year, he jumped off the stands at the Mestalla Stadium, and the situation eventually turned into a farce in which Zhuo Yang led Real Madrid to beat the on-site security.

They scolded Chen Jingxi for causing Zhuo Yang trouble, called him a beast, scolded him for being shameless, scolding him for making money through live streaming, and scolding his ancestors for eighteen generations. It was very unpleasant.

Chen Jingxi did not retaliate, not even a word of defense. He endured it silently and continued to live broadcast the story of the town to everyone with a smile.

Even in the beginning, people in the small town often pointed at his nose and yelled at him, and people wanted to beat him from time to time, but Chen Jingxi accepted it. But he didn't back down and persisted here.

It was the eldest sister Tou Zhuo Qiu and the village chief Ke Zi who spoke to protect Chen Jingxi, so the 'residents' of the town stopped causing trouble to him.

Ke Zi used to be the village chief and is now the director of the community committee, but everyone still calls him the village chief. In fact, Ke Zi is the real 'town mayor' here. He manages and coordinates everything here. He took the lead in providing electricity and water, making the town happy, lively and orderly.

The middle-aged man Ke Zi has a high prestige here. Being a local snake boss is only one aspect. Everyone knows that he is Zhuo Yang's best friend, and this is the most important thing. Ke Zi's son is in the Madibao U16 youth team and is the main attacking midfielder.

After Chen Jingxi planned to save some more money, he asked Village Chief Ke to apply. He wanted to harden the ground here, lay turf on the court, and use craft floor tiles in other places. Chen Jingxi also planned to build several iron cage football fields.

This requires a lot of money, so he is very diligent in live broadcasting. Of course, his father also promised to fund part of it when the time comes. It is only natural for a father to spend money on his son.

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Three consecutive firecrackers exploded, causing snowflakes to fly, and the air was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke. I heard that some people like to smell this smell very much, just like some people are obsessed with the smell of gasoline.

After Chen Jingxi and Lin Jiajia rubbed each other's red and cold faces, they saw a few more cars around the town and some strangers in the open space.

Two middle-aged men were obviously the leaders of these people. One of them was lean and lean, and the other was chubby and wearing glasses. There were many people in the town, and everyone was immersed in the atmosphere of celebrating the New Year and did not notice them.

But Chen Jingxi always felt that these two people looked familiar, but for a while he couldn't remember where he had seen them before.

After a while, the village chief Ke Zi, who was supposed to be busy paying New Year greetings, also hurried over. He ignored Chen Jingxi, shook hands with the two middle-aged men, and looked around the town like them, very seriously.

Suddenly, Chen Jingxi remembered that he had glimpsed these two people on TV. The short-haired one was a bodyguard, his name was Xiaotong, and the fat-eyed one was called Cheng Hao, and he was the Queen's reporter.

They are Zhuoyang's closest friends.

Chen Jingxi suddenly felt something, and he quickly raised his head to look at the Zhuo family courtyard in the distance.

A red car just drove out of there and drove slowly toward the town.

Chen Jingxi's heart started beating wildly. He held Lin Jiajia's hand tightly and watched intently as the car approached from a distance and slowly stopped at the edge of the town.

Xiaotong and Cheng Hao were already waiting by the car. Chen Jingxi almost forgot to breathe, and his heartbeat seemed to roar louder than firecrackers.

The door on the outside of the back seat of the car opened, and Zhuo Yang appeared outside the door. He went around to the other side, opened the door and reached out to take Kou Kou out.

Zhuo Yang and Kou Kou smiled and looked at the people celebrating the New Year in the town.