For winter melon, this piece is ripe.
It was very familiar, before Xu Qing picked it up, the big trash cans in the corner by the wall were its dining hall...
"Does it think we're going to throw it back?" Xu Qing asked thoughtfully when he saw the winter melon hidden behind Jiang He's leg.
"Where do you throw it back?"
"Over there, that's where I picked it up."
Jiang He followed his gaze, then walked in the opposite direction: "Then it won't pass."
The winter sun didn't have much temperature, and it was warm on the body. Both of them were full, and the winter melon had just been fed.
After being bored for a while, she couldn't help asking, "Do you just like picking things up?"
"No, I only pick up things I like."
Xu Qing replied, looked up at the small colorful flags flying everywhere in the community, and said, "It's the Chinese New Year, you seem to have the same thing about the Chinese New Year, right?"
Before Jiang He could answer, he asked himself and answered: "Anyway, this kind of Chinese New Year is definitely not available. You can eat and drink whatever you want... In the early years, fireworks and firecrackers were set off, but now they are not allowed to do so, so I can only do so secretly."
"Chinese New Year?"
"On a family reunion day, generally speaking, no matter how far away you are, you have to go home. This is why the Spring Festival travel has happened. As I have shown you before, so many people are crowded together on the train."
Jiang He didn't speak, and looked at the sky through the big trees in the community that had withered and only had branches, and sighed.
"My home is your home. I'll take you there to post Spring Festival couplets some other day...we'll post it here too."
"Ok."
"The first year... It's worth commemorating. I'll take you to buy new clothes tomorrow for the first day of the new year."
boom!
The two were talking, and a cannon sounded in the distance. Xu Qing looked at the children over there, and said with a smile, "That's firecrackers, and they will go off with just a little fire."
"Is it fun?"
"It should be very fun...Winter Melon will be afraid of that, next time I will buy you small fireworks to play with."
After the winter vacation, the community is much more lively than before.
Not only the children who originally lived here were liberated from their studies, but those young people who have already married and left will bring their children to live here for a while, or leave the children with their grandparents and run away to have fun by themselves.
Jiang He watched a group of children playing in the open space, and occasionally felt an unreal feeling of trance.
Everything is so peaceful and cozy.
"Xiaoyan!"
Seeing Xiaoyan standing not far away watching the boy set off firecrackers, Xu Qing raised his hand to greet her.
"Brother Xu!"
Xiaoyan was about to cover her ears, she was attracted by Xu Qing's shout, her hands slowed down, and then there was a bang of firecrackers, which made her shrink her shoulders, curled her mouth to look at the boys, and covered her ears with one hand Running towards Xu Qing.
"Afraid of firecrackers at such an age?" Xu Qing saw her acting funny.
"Not afraid!" Xiaoyan shook his head vigorously, "It's just very, very noisy!"
"Then look... this is sister Jiang He."
"Hi sister!"
"Hello."
Jiang He squeezed Xu Qing's hand tightly, and blinked at the little girl who only reached his waist.
The double ponytails are swayed, looking very lively.
"Aunt Cheng's granddaughter, that Aunt Cheng who often carries a basket."
Xu Qing explained that Jiang He nodded slightly, as long as Xu Qing took the initiative to bring her to know people, most of them had some purpose.
In the past six months, she has already discovered that Xu Qing has always been very purposeful, and unless it is very interesting, he seldom does useless things for no reason.
"Is this winter melon?"
When Xiaoyan greeted Jiang He, his eyes were already attracted by the winter melon, and he was surprised after carefully identifying it.
The last time I saw it, it was a little skinny guy, but now it has become a big fat guy.
"Yeah, it grows much faster than you, so it needs to eat more."
"I don't want to become a little fat man!"
Xu Qing joked with her, took Jiang He to sit on a bench to rest, bask in the sun, and handed the rope to Xiaoyan for her to play with the wax gourd.
"The neighbors here are all very nice, like Aunt Cheng, who is just a bit gossipy. She is very nice and warm-hearted. When I was a child, I was locked out of the house and couldn't get in. When my parents came back, she would let me go if she saw her. Stay at home and watch TV and do homework."
Seeing Xiao Yanle happily hugging the wax gourd and showing off with his friends, he casually talked about the past with Jiang He.
This neighborhood was his childhood. He moved to the new home with Xu Wenbin and his wife for a while, and then moved back after going to university.
"What are you trying to do by bringing me to know her?" Jiang He was curious about this question.
"Don't you think she is cute?" Xu Qing was surprised.
"Very cute..." Jiang He looked at Xiaoyan, who was bouncing around not far away, and asked doubtfully, "Is it because she is cute?"
"if not?"
Xu Qing asked back, paused and said, "I want you to get to know a few more people, otherwise life will be too monotonous... I found out that you have misunderstood me?"
"Maybe… "
Jiang He raised his head and thought for a while, but he didn't know where his inexplicable idea came from.
Anyway, I just feel that he will always connect many things together.
Like holding her hand...
Jiang He looked down at Xu Qing's pig's trotters, and was fiddling with her fingers again.
"She would come to Aunt Cheng's place to live with Aunt Cheng for a few days every winter and summer vacation, and sometimes she would come to me with her winter vacation homework, and play with winter melon along the way... Winter vacation homework is the work of the students, homework exercises."
Xu Qing ran his index finger across her palm, as if helping her to read the palm, and suddenly said: "I seem to be turning into a palm reader."
"What?" Jiang He heard another new word.
"It means that I like hands very much."
Jiang He was silent for a while, then turned his head to look elsewhere, "You liked it in the first place."
"Maybe."
Xu Qing didn't explain that it was because of too little authority that he could only like hands...
If the authority is enough, let her know what a real disciple is.
"ginger… "
Xiaoyan ran over with the cat in his arms, shouted a word stuck, Xu Qing helped identify the person: "Sister Jiang He."
"Sister Jiang He!" Xiaoyan called out sweetly, looking at the two of them holding hands, "Are you Brother Xu's girlfriend?"
Before Jiang He answered, Xu Qing asked with a smile, "Do you know what a girlfriend is?"
"Of course I know!"
"what?"
"It's just... just..." Xiaoyan couldn't speak with his eyes wide open, and didn't know how to explain.
She blushed so much that she said loudly, "It's my girlfriend!"
"How cute." Xu Qing smiled at Jiang He, and didn't say much about it.
Children should not know too much.
It's not good to be taken badly.
"If you like winter melon, come and play with it." He patted Xiaoyan's head and said warmly, "You can also play with sister Jiang He."
"it is good!"
Xiaoyan nodded vigorously.