The noisy sound of the Spring Festival Gala came from the living room. Jiang Zhao put on a Chinese New Year vest custom-made by Ms. Xu for his younger sister, and a red jacket embroidered with gold thread. They were delicate and cute, like a kitten in a New Year painting.
Ergou was also wearing a vest of the same style, and he had two pairs of matching shoes on his feet, but after wearing them for less than two hours, he didn't know where those four shoes had all gone, and he was very angry When the lady hits the dog during the Chinese New Year, she even mobilizes the whole family to find shoes for it.
When Jiang Zhao just fished out Ergou's shoes from under the sofa, the phone rang a series of ding-dong sounds.
In the company group of his studio, the employees have played red envelope solitaire one after another, and whoever is lucky will be responsible for handing out the next one. Jiang Zhao followed to join in the fun. He grabbed one of his sister's little claws. After the red envelope special effect was turned on, he snatched 130 of the 200 yuan red envelope.
The people in the group immediately started booing: "Brother Jiang, you are so lucky!"
"Brother Jiang, come one by one!"
"Don't stop me, I must be the lucky king of Brother Jiang's red envelope!"
In the group, you talked to each other, emoticons flew around, Jiang Zhao smiled and stopped peeping at the screen, and sent a red envelope.
After the red envelope was sent out, he grabbed his sister's paw and grabbed it again. Unexpectedly, a few seconds later, the 99 yuan he grabbed was at the top, and he was the luckiest again.
The group immediately exploded: "Brother Jiang, what's wrong with your luck today!"
"Did you hang up? Brother Jiang, did you call the boss of WeChat?"
"I don't believe it! Brother Jiang is the one who has won the consolation prize at the annual meeting for five consecutive years. Tonight, Brother Jiang's dog must have won it!"
Jiang Zhao was also shocked for a moment. After a while, he put down his phone, hugged his sister in the air with both hands, and couldn't help laughing: "Why are you so good?"
The kitten blinked ignorantly—flying high!
The fate of the African chiefs for many years was reversed overnight. Jiang Zhao proudly took a photo of his sister's little meaty claws and posted it to the group to show off: "It's not a dog, it's a lucky cat."
Immediately, a long list of "bye bye beckoning cat" was neatly brushed up in the group.
Jiang Zhao had fun for a long time, and did not forget the annual tradition after the music was over. He sent out ten big red envelopes in a row in the group, so that everyone in the studio could have a good time this New Year.
Ms. Xu was leaning on the sofa with her feet on Lao Jiang's lap, making phone calls with her little sisters from all over the world. From time to time, she raised her head to watch the Spring Festival Gala sketches on TV, making complaints about how ugly she was. Lao Jiang nodded calmly beside him, saying that even he knew the old joke he played just now, and it was really ugly.
There was the sound of crackling electronic firecrackers outside the window, and the skit actors on TV exited and were replaced by slim dancers. The circle of friends is showing tonight's sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner, the clock is running smoothly, and the New Year is less than half an hour away.
A new year that is plain, stable, and full of hope.
Jiang Zhao stroked the kitten in his arms, and suddenly he felt a little curious - what should Xiao Si be doing at this time
It seems that Jiangcheng can't help the fireworks. It should be very lively at this time, right
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At this time, the Huo family's old house.
The best-lit bedroom on the second floor has a small European-style balcony. The moonlight is like washing, falling on the brows and eyes of the man standing on the balcony, dyeing his eyes with a layer of cold blue.
A moment later, his cell phone rang suddenly with a WeChat call.
A somewhat unrealistic fantasy flashed through his mind, and Xiao Si immediately picked up the phone, but the moment he saw the caller clearly, the fantasy disappeared.
Not Jiang Zhao.
The call from the other party was a video call, so Xiao Si turned on the lights on the terrace and lazily connected it while leaning on the railing of the terrace.
The boy's big face suddenly appeared on the screen of the phone, revealing a mouthful of neat white teeth, with the sun shining brightly behind him: "Brother! Happy New Year!"
Xiao Si also looked down at him, with a calm expression, carrying a trace of his brother's natural majesty: "Where are you wandering?"
"I'm on the yacht!" Xiao Chaonian beamed live broadcasting the environment around him. Under the bright sunshine, the waves were churning and the seagulls were flying up and down. Xiao Si also greeted.
Xiao Siye's expression relaxed a little, and he smiled slightly, wishing them a good time.
Xiao Chaonian has long been used to his brother's attitude of being too lazy to talk to him, he giggled: "Brother, where are you celebrating the New Year today?"
Xiao Si also glanced at the lights downstairs, just staying in this village made him feel extremely bad, he said with care like gold: "The Huo family."
Xiao Chaonian's smile suddenly faded, he pushed his friend aside, and said seriously, "They didn't make things difficult for you, did they?"
"Embarrass me?" Xiao Si also gave a low laugh, and with a hint of sarcasm, he took out a mint box from his pocket, "They have to make it difficult for them to get it."
When Xiao Chaonian saw the candy box in his hand, his expression suddenly became a little weird: "Brother, you don't smoke anymore?"
"Quit." Xiao Si also bit two pieces of candy between his lips, and the cold breath came with the night wind, completely cooling.
"You quit smoking?!" Xiao Chaonian started yelling directly, the young man opened his eyes wide, and almost jumped up on the yacht, "You actually quit smoking? I have persuaded you for almost ten years and you haven't quit I have only been abroad for half a year and you quit smoking!"
His bursts of shouting made Xiao Si's ears numb, and he glanced at him with a bit of disgust: "If you keep shouting, I'll hang up."
"Brother—" Xiao Chaonian immediately lowered his voice very insightfully, squinting his eyes and laughing, "What happened to you recently?"
He was too aware of how addicted his brother was to cigarettes, and Xiao Si also seemed to be very self-disciplined, only touching one or two cigarettes a day.
But this habit has actually started since he was a teenager. A few cigarettes a day are like the first sip of water when he wakes up, and it has almost been engraved in Xiao Siye's life track.
His brother is such a person, no matter how addictive things are, he can do his utmost to restrain himself, but it doesn't mean that he can just give up one of the necessities of life.
Unless—it was another more important thing that made his brother willingly abandon his habit of so many years, which was even more effective than talking to his own brother.
Xiao Chaonian rolled his eyes, and before Xiao Si could speak, he guessed something:
"Brother, you and my sister-in-law... have you finally made progress?"
Xiao Si also bit the mint candy and paused.
The change in his expression at this moment couldn't escape Xiao Chaonian's eyes at all, and the boy exclaimed "Fuck": "It's true! Brother!!"
Xiao Si also took a deep breath, in order to save his temples from the headache, and to prevent himself from directly calling a private jet to hit his younger brother in another hemisphere, he looked at the phone screen: "Okay, happy new year, hang up. "
"Brother, you must take me back at your wedding ceremony, I can be a flower girl—"
With a beep, the WeChat call was hung up.
Xiao Chaonian looked at the phone screen that had returned to the chat page, but squatted on the yacht like a fool and enjoyed himself for a long time, until his companions came over curiously and asked him: "What happened, so happy?"
"It's nothing." Xiao Chaonian wiped away his tears of joy, looked at the blue ocean waves in the distance, and said with a smile, "I just feel that my brother...is not easy."
"Ten years."
The young man sighed with emotion in a low voice, and his voice was light and floating, scattered in the oncoming gentle and moist sea breeze.
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The moment the clock struck zero, Jiang Zhao's cell phone rang countless messages.
One after another, New Year's greeting messages poured into the list. Jiang Zhao didn't check it first, but gave Ms. Xu and Lao Jiang a hug in earnest:
"Happy New Year."
Ms. Xu smiled and took out a thick red envelope from under the pillow: "Come on, Happy New Year."
Lao Jiang took out one in the same way, and Jiang Zhao took it with some irony: "I'm already this old, and I still have a red envelope."
"It's always been there if you're not married," Ms. Xu said, blinking her eyes. "Hey, when will Xiaoye come to pay New Year's greetings? I've prepared a red envelope for him too."
Jiang Zhao coughed lightly, and covered up his fake boyfriend: "His hometown is in Jiangcheng, and he probably won't be back until the next year."
Ms. Xu let out a little disappointment, and said again: "I heard that our country will introduce a same-sex marriage bill in the next year?"
Jiang Zhao: "What do you want to express?"
Ms. Xu smiled and patted his head very kindly: "I don't want to give red envelopes next year."
Jiang Zhao: "..."
A call suddenly came to his mobile phone. Jiang Zhao glanced at the caller, pretended not to understand anything, picked it up and left: "I'll answer the call."
Looking at his red ears and fleeing back, Ms. Xu sighed, "Oh, it's nice to be young."
Lao Jiang put down the teacup in his hand: "I will have a holiday after the year, let's find a place to play? No son."
Ms. Xu rolled her eyes: "Of course not!"
…
In the room, Jiang Zhao sat on the bed and connected the phone that rang several times.
The next moment, Xiao Siye's voice rang on the phone, deep and magnetic: "Happy New Year."
"Happy New Year," Jiang Zhao blinked, "This is the first New Year's call I've ever answered."
"Really?" Xiao Si also said with a hint of a smile at the end of his voice, "Then I am honored."
Jiang Zhao listened to his voice, but Ms. Xu's suggestion sounded involuntarily in his mind, and he was inexplicably guilty: "My parents also prepared a red envelope for you, and when you come back, you just accept it."
"It's... a year-end bonus."
Xiao Si was also slightly surprised: "I also have a red envelope?"
Jiang Zhao explained: "Our family's tradition, as long as the child is not married, it will be held every year."
"Is the aunt very unwilling to give it?" Xiao Si also smiled, "After all, the same-sex marriage bill will be introduced next year."
Jiang Zhao was stunned for a moment—he didn't expect that Xiao Si would say something similar to Ms. Xu.
A few seconds later, he changed the subject a little bluntly: "Didn't you go to set off the fireworks? Jiangcheng should be able to set off fireworks."
Now it was Xiao Si's turn to be silent. Although he didn't speak, there was still a slight sound of wind coming from over there. Jiang Zhao couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"
Xiao Si also coughed lightly: "Let me confess something to you first."
Jiang Zhao was puzzled: "Huh?"
"I... didn't go back to Jiangcheng," Xiao Si also said, "I changed my plan temporarily and went to a relative's house for the New Year."
He didn't know why he wanted to tell Jiang Zhao about it. Even if he kept it from Jiang Zhao, there would be no problem.
But for some reason, at this moment, he suddenly didn't want to hide anything from Jiang Zhao.
Maybe it's because of the red envelope that Jiang Zhao said, maybe it's because... he heard the words of Happy New Year that he dreamed of.
After a while, Jiang Zhao said, "Aren't you very happy at your relative's house?"
Xiao Si was also startled: "Huh?"
Jiang Zhao listened to the faint music of the Spring Festival Gala downstairs and Ms. Xu's singing, and said, "I've never seen anyone's New Year's Eve so quietly, so I'll ask you. If I'm wrong, just pretend to be me..."
"yes."
Xiao Si also spoke suddenly, with a low voice: "I really don't want to come here."
Jiang Zhao thought: "Then do you want to come to my house?"
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly regretted his words a little bit, after all, there will be countless seven aunts and eight aunts coming to his house starting tomorrow.
If Xiao Si is there, all his relatives will definitely know that he has such a "boyfriend" by then.
It's just that before Jiang Zhao could take back these words, he heard Xiao Si's voice suddenly raised: "Really?"
Jiang Zhao's expression froze, but he had to grit his teeth: "Really."
He heard a rush of footsteps coming from Xiao Si's side, followed by the rustling sound of dressing, the sound of opening the door, and Xiao Si's firm words: "Wait for me."
After Xiao Si finished speaking, he hung up the phone. Jiang Zhao stared dumbfounded at the screen of the mobile phone where the chat page had been restored. After a while, he realized what this man was going to do—he actually ran over in the middle of the night!
At this time, the Huo family could be said to be in a state of chaos, Xiao Si also went downstairs was seen by everyone except Mr. Huo who went to bed early, Huo Jianxing watched him hurry The figure suddenly became furious: "What are you going to do?!"
Xiao Si also changed into brand new clothes, and was arranging his tie, without raising his head, he said, "Go out for a stroll."
Ignoring Huo Jianxing's incompetent and furious roar behind him, he walked towards the car parked outside the old house on the night wind of the first day of the new year.
A moment later, the Rolls-Royce drew a perfect arc, carrying the people in the car into the thick night.
Twenty minutes later.
Ms. Xu and Lao Jiang both went to sleep, Jiang Zhao put on his coat like a thief, and walked quietly into the garden.
He leaned against the garden gate, unable to remember the last time he was so sneaky.
It's almost like... some kind of puppy love high school sweetheart falling in love behind their parents' backs.
Jiang Zhao was speechless for a moment at this metaphor of his own, and quickly came back to his senses, and found that Xiao Si had also hung up the phone and hadn't responded to his message, probably because he really came by car.
He wrapped his coat tightly in the cold wind of the first month, thinking to himself what was going on.
Just as he was thinking, a black Rolls-Royce drove up not far away. The shiny body reflected the luster of the moonlight. It rushed over without slowing down, and stopped suddenly when it reached the gate of Jiang's house.
A figure in a coat came down from the car, Jiang Zhao was about to complain that he was so particular about it in such a cold day, when he saw Xiao Si walking towards him quickly, and opened his arms to him.
Jiang Zhao was taken aback, and raised his arms subconsciously. His action seemed to have given Xiao Siye great encouragement, and he was held tightly in his arms the next moment.
"Happy New Year." Xiao Si also stuck to his ear and said with a light smile.
Jiang Zhao pursed his lips: "Happy New Year, so why did you come here in the middle of the night?"
Xiao Si also paused for a while, as if he only now realized that what he did tonight was a little impulsive, and he didn't know how to reply Jiang Zhao.
Seeing that he was silent, Jiang Zhao moved his arms lightly, trying to get out of Xiao Siye's arms.
However, in the next moment, Xiao Si hugged him tightly again. The extremely warm body temperature poured from the arms of the person in front of him continuously, and he heard the other person's very soft voice:
"It's just suddenly... I really want to see you."
So I drove out in the middle of the night, crossed countless deserted streets, and came here without hesitation, regardless of how much criticism my willful behavior would bring about.
Just to open my arms and hug you in the coldest weather.
The author has something to say:
I have a bad stomach from eating today... My body is too uncomfortable, the number of words is a little less qaq;
It’s too hot, everyone must pay attention to food safety wow (the weak author shouted tremblingly)