This evening, after finishing the preparations for tomorrow's food stall, Yu Qingze studied with Chang Hao in the main room. Chang Hao was writing the homework given by the master, and Yu Qingze was reading a book while learning to write traditional characters on Chang Hao's sand-wood plate.
At first, he was quite serious, but when he looked at him, he lost his mind.
Ever since he decided to reveal his feelings to Brother Le on Brothers' Day in the morning, Yu Qingze has been excited for a long time, the corners of his mouth have been hooked, and his excitement has continued.
He thought to himself, on Brother's Day, will he do this first, then do that, or do that first and then do this? I simulate the plot of dating and confession in my mind, and I don't even know if I make a fool of myself.
"hey-hey… "
The young boy Chang Hao was writing with a trembling hand, the tip of the brush was heavy, and the vertical line he was writing was suddenly twisted, and a big belly turned out in the middle.
Chang Hao: ... a good word, it's ruined like that.
The little boy sighed and looked up at Yu Qingze next to him in surprise.
Is the book that Brother Yu read so interesting? But he was about to finish writing the words on a piece of paper, and he didn't seem to have turned the page...
"Hey hey hey..."
Chang Hao: ... oh, why do you think this laughter is getting more and more weird
"Brother Yu, is this book interesting? What is it about?" Chang Hao asked curiously.
It's a pity that his big brother Yu's eyes were fixed on the book, but his brain didn't know where to fly, and his ears were closed, so he didn't hear his question at all.
Chang Hao: …
"Big Brother Yu?" Chang Hao called out again with an expressionless face, and even reached out and waved his hand in front of him, finally awakening the "addicted brother Yu who couldn't help himself".
"Ah? What? What did you say, Xiaohao?" Yu Qingze was startled, looking at Chang Hao's helpless and speechless expression. Only then did he realize that he was thinking too much, and the smirk at the corner of his mouth was too late to put away.
Chang Hao pointed to the book in his hand and asked, "Is there any interesting story on this page? You've been reading it for a long time, and you're still laughing."
"Is there any?" Yu Qingze reached out and wiped his face, restrained the expression on his face, and then answered Chang Hao's previous question: "I was thinking about something, not reading."
Chang Hao was curious and asked, "What are you thinking? You are so distracted that you didn't hear it, is it a good thing?"
Yu Qingze's thoughts flashed through his mind, and he said with a smile: "Good thing. Hey, Xiaohao, let me ask you, who did your brother go to the city with to watch the lanterns when he was celebrating Brother's Festival?"
"Brother's Festival?" Chang Hao shook his head and said, "My brother is not on the Brothers Festival. As far as I can remember, he has never been to the city to watch lanterns during the Brothers Festival. Only the Duanyang Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Lantern Festival will follow the festival. Grandpa and I went to see the lanterns."
Yu Qingze was surprised, his mouth opened wide unconsciously, and asked, "Did you not go once?"
Chang Hao nodded and said with certainty: "From what I can remember, we all only went to the city to watch lanterns during the Duanyang Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Lantern Festival. My brother must have never been there on Brother's Festival."
If Chang Le never goes, wouldn't it be troublesome? If I invited him to go, with his character, I would definitely not go.
Yu Qingze frowned and thought about it, how could he bring Chang Le to the city
"Brother Yu, do you want to go to the city to see the lanterns?" Chang Hao asked him with his eyes wide open.
Yu Qingze looked at Chang Hao, suddenly had an idea, and asked, "Yes, I want to go and have a look." Yu Qingze looked at the direction of the kitchen, and then whispered: "I still want to take your brother with you, what can you do? ?"
Chang Hao's eyes lit up and asked in a low voice, "Are you going to a tryst?"
"What a rendezvous! Misuse of words!" Yu Qingze patted Chang Hao's head and corrected: "It's a 'date'."
"Oh, a date~meeting~" Chang Hao winked and learned a bit, snickering.
Yu Qingze patted him angrily, and then said: "Quickly find a way for me, if I tell him to go directly, he will definitely not go, you have to help me."
"It's very simple." Chang Hao replied.
Yu Qingze asked anxiously, "How?"
Chang Hao rolled his eyes and said with a grin, "Big Brother Yu, every time there is a lantern festival, there are candy candies on the street, but it's delicious. My brother will buy one for me every time I go there."
This snack!
Yu Qingze laughed and scolded: "Just remember to eat! Okay, I'll buy it for you, and I'll buy you whatever else you want, okay? Tell me now."
"And fried chestnuts and hawthorn gourds!"
"Okay, okay, what can you do, your brother will finish washing later!"
"Come here." Chang Hao beckoned to Yu Qingze mysteriously, motioning him to come closer.
Yu Qingze whispered in his ear, and Chang Hao said something like this in his ear.
After speaking, Yu Qingze was a little skeptical and said, "Is it possible?"
Chang Hao patted his small chest and said confidently: "Sure! My brother, I understand!"
Yu Qingze glanced at him suspiciously again, and said, "Isn't it for Little Candy Man, Fried Chestnuts and Hawthorn Gourd?"
Chang Hao smiled, squeezed his fingers and made a stray gesture, and said, "This is also one of the very small reasons. You don't need to worry about it. The most important thing is that this method can work."
"Okay, I believe you this time, then you can cooperate well."
"no problem."
On the eighth day of the first day, Brother's Day, there are no food stalls and rest.
The Changle family's living habits are very good. They basically don't sleep in late, and everyone gets up early.
Grandpa Chang likes to go around the fields when he wakes up in the morning, and sometimes he cuts the hogweed by the way. Chang Le usually goes to mow the hogweed or go to the laundry, while Chang Hao has to pluck the hogweed in the morning since he went to school. Horse striding while backing.
The little boy went to school very attentively. In addition to completing the homework given by the master every day, he would also ask Yu Qingze to teach him how to read and write. The young man has a good memory, is smart and diligent, and learns quite quickly. Yu Xiucai has praised it, which makes Chang Le and Grandpa Chang very happy.
Yu Qingze deliberately got up early and made a rich breakfast, small chaos, soup dumplings, crystal dumplings, cold seaweed shreds, salty bone vegetable dry porridge.
Usually, they set up their stalls earlier, and they ate relatively simple breakfasts. Now that he has time, he wants everyone to eat better and richer.
And today is Brothers Day.
At the breakfast table, several people were surprised and happy looking at the sumptuous breakfast.
"Brother Le, come, today is Brother's Day, which is your festival. I wish you a happy holiday and a happy day." Yu Qingze picked up a crystal dumpling and put it in the bowl in front of Brother Le, and said with a smile.
It was the first time he heard that he wished him a happy holiday, Chang Le was a little ashamed, his face flushed red, and he stretched out his hand in a gesture of thanks.
Chang Hao followed suit, he took a soup dumpling and put it in his brother's bowl, and said, "Then I wish you a happy holiday, good health and all the best!"
The little boy rarely said such a congratulatory message that gave people goosebumps.
Chang Le smiled, and gestured to thank him. He also reached out and put a soup dumpling in his brother's bowl.
Grandpa Chang smiled and said nothing. He took a chopstick of kelp and put it into his grandson's bowl, "Eat more."
Chang Le took the bowl with both hands, nodded and smiled at Grandpa.
Breakfast was delicious with Hemeimei.
Because the lantern festival is at night, they all went to the ground except Chang Hao to go to school during the day. While they were at home, they sowed the radish, Chinese cabbage, and coriander celery seeds, which would be sown and eaten during the New Year.
At noon, when Chang Hao came back from school, he took his brother and started to act like a spoiled child: "Brother, there is a lantern festival tonight, shall we go to see it? Everyone in the school is going to see it, shall we go too? It's been a long time since we've been there."
Chang Le gestured, meaning that the Mid-Autumn Festival will be in a few days, and then go again.
"I'll go in a few days, let's go today too. I've never been to a lantern festival on Ge'er's Day. I heard someone in the school say that the lanterns sold on Ge'er's Day are different, but they are beautiful." Looking at his brother, his expression was as pitiful as possible, as much as he wanted to go.
Chang Le subconsciously didn't want to go out on Brother's Day, but seeing his brother looking forward to it, he suddenly softened again, thought about it for a while, and finally nodded.
Chang Hao was very happy to see that his brother agreed, and then flew to the kitchen to report the good news to Yu Qingze.
"Good boy, I'll bring you something delicious tonight!" Yu Qingze gave him a thumbs up and praised him, and the young boy Chang Hao happily flew out to find his grandfather again. Big Brother Yu's plan still needs the cooperation of Grandpa, and he has to communicate with Grandpa first.
In the afternoon, because they decided to go to see the lanterns at night, they ate dinner earlier. After Chang Hao finished school in the afternoon, they started to eat and walked before it was dark.
After a delicious dinner, a few people washed a little and changed into clean clothes. Then the four of them locked the door and walked happily into the city.
There are many people who think like them, and many villagers also set off for the city at this time.
When some villagers saw Chang Hao Changle them, they chatted: "Yo, Chang Hao, are you going to see the lanterns today too?"
Chang Hao pouted and said, "Yes, Uncle Feng, do you want to go with your family too?"
"Yes, go to lively and lively."
The two of them chatted one by one, and when they walked from the small road to the entrance of the official road, Chang Hao suddenly screamed.
"Oops, it's broken!"
Several people turned to look at him, and Yu Qingze asked with concern: "What's wrong?"
Grandpa Chang glared at him and said, "Little leather monkey, what are you calling me?"
Chang Le also looked at his younger brother for no apparent reason.
Chang Hao scratched his head, with a constipated and depressed expression on his face, and said, "Grandpa, I forgot that the master assigned three sheets of homework today, and I will write it later when I come back. heart."
Grandpa Chang cooperated and said, "Then you still want to go to the city?"
Chang Hao said with a bitter face: "It's been a long time since I went."
"Okay, then don't go, go back and finish your homework well, and you can go after the Mid-Autumn Festival to watch the lanterns in a few days."
Chang Hao glanced at the direction of the city in a particularly tangled manner, and then said melancholy, "Okay."
Then Grandpa Chang took Chang Hao to turn around and prepare to go back. Who knew that Chang Le would also go back after seeing him.
When Chang Hao saw it, he hurriedly stopped his brother: "Hey brother, I'll just go back with my grandfather. You and Big Brother Yu go to the city to see the lanterns. This is the first time for us to see the lanterns when Big Brother Yu is here."
When Chang Le heard this, he looked back at Yu Qingze subconsciously.
Yu Qingze smiled and said, "I really want to go see it."
Chang Hao hurriedly said, "Brother, take Big Brother Yu. It's the first time he goes to the lantern festival. He definitely doesn't know what fun we have here. He has to be accompanied by an acquaintance."
Chang Le was very confused. In this lonely place, a man and a brother go to see the lanterns of the Brothers Festival together, this is not suitable...
Over there, Grandpa Chang also spoke up and said, "Xiao Le, you can take A Ze there. Pay attention to your wallet. When there are many people, there are many pickpockets."
Grandfather spoke up, Chang Le nodded hesitantly, and despised himself in his heart. The little thought about Big Brother Yu in his heart is really inappropriate, and he must be the only one who thinks it is inappropriate. Big Brother Yu is so magnanimous, Will not think too much.
So, the four parted ways.
When Yu Qingze and Chang Le left, Chang Hao also instructed to bring him food back.
Chang Le thought it was what he told him, so he nodded solemnly and agreed. Yu Qingze couldn't help laughing and crying.
There are many people who go to the city on the official road. Although it is Brothers' Day, it is not only the brothers who will go there. Some of them come out as a whole family, some are a group of 'lovers' at first glance, and some are men who accompany their brothers to be the flower guardians. of.
Yu Qingze and Chang Le both walked relatively fast. Along the way, Yu Qingze deliberately found a topic to ask some interesting and beautiful things at the lantern festival, and Chang Le answered him one by one with gestures.
After such a long period of study and training, Yu Qingze can recognize Chang Le's sign language by 70% to 80%, and the two of them have not been embarrassed to 'talk' all the way.
All in all, it was pretty smooth along the way.
When they arrived at the gate of the city, it was just getting dark, and before they entered the city, they saw all kinds of lanterns shining on West Street, and the orange lights illuminated the night.
"It's so beautiful!" As soon as he entered the city, Yu Qingze couldn't help but exclaimed.
Although modern neon lights are also very beautiful, and the alternation of light and shadow can be combined into various interesting graphics, but those are relatively common to Yu Qingze who is used to seeing them, and they do not attract much interest.
However, now, in this different world, the streets of this city full of quaint fragrances are lit up like daylight by various lanterns; there are also all kinds of stalls and crowds, it is really lively.
The difference between day and night is really big. Although he was quite familiar with this street, it was still like seeing it for the first time.
This kind of bustling scene that could only be seen in movies and TV before suddenly appeared in front of Yu Qingze, he suddenly felt a little unreal, like watching a movie.
Until he felt that his sleeve was pulled, Yu Qingze recovered from his stupor. He looked at Chang Le and asked, "Brother Le, what's wrong?"
Chang Le just saw that he was in a daze, so he teased him. Now that he sees him asking, he stretches out his hand and points forward, signaling to go shopping quickly.
Yu Qingze nodded and said, "Let's go."
The lantern festival is mainly held on the two main roads, the North-South Street and the East-West Street, which intersect at the cross.
The two walked and watched.
It was the first time that Yu Qingze saw this kind of lantern festival. He was very curious and went to every stall to see it.
"Brother Le, do you think this lantern looks good? It's a little tiger. Would you like to buy it back for Xiaohao?"
Chang Le smiled and motioned him not to buy it. There are more beautiful ones ahead. If you buy it now, you will regret it later.
"Really? I'll buy it later." Yu Qingze decisively put down the little tiger lantern in his hand and followed Chang Le to the front.
"Brother Le, what kind of lantern do you like? Let's buy one."
Yu Qingze's eyes were about to look at flowers, and everything looked good. He didn't know what Chang Le liked, so he asked.
Chang Le turned around and gave him a gesture.
At this time, several brothers and men in front rushed over, and a man next to him accidentally bumped into Chang Le.
Chang Le staggered forward, Yu Qingze saw it, and quickly reached out and grabbed Chang Le's shoulders and took him into his arms, barely falling.
Seeing that the man bumped into someone, he apologized embarrassedly and left.
"How's it going? Did you bump into something?" Yu Qingze asked with his head lowered, not letting go of the hand that was holding Chang Le's shoulder.
Chang Le was half lying in Yu Qingze's arms, his hands pressed against Yu Qingze's chest, the touch of his hands was firm and warm, and his nose was the clear breath that belonged to Yu Qingze's body, his face immediately turned red, he quickly propped his hands away Yu Qingze hugged him, then lowered his head and shook his hand to indicate that he was fine.
Yu Qingze looked at Chang Le's shy red ears, pursed his lips and smiled, and said, "Brother Le, there are so many people on the street that we might be washed away, why don't you pull my sleeve?"
Although he really wanted to say holding hands directly, Yu Qingze knew that if he really said it, Chang Le would definitely be unwilling, so he could only hold his sleeves.
Hearing this, Chang Le clenched his hand, and there was still that firm and warm touch on it. The heat on his face rose a little before it went down, and he was embarrassed to see anyone. He looked down at the people on the street, there were indeed many, but he still shook his head, indicating that he would follow him closely.
Yu Qingze was helpless and said, "Okay, let's walk next to each other. Hey, there are people juggling over there, let's go and see?"
Chang Le nodded, he also liked to watch juggling.
The two walked side by side, chatting, mainly Yu Qingze was talking, Chang Le lowered his head and didn't dare to look at him, let alone make gestures at him.
People come and go on the street, and it is no exaggeration to describe it as rubbing shoulders. In this way, they had to avoid the oncoming crowd from time to time, so from time to time, the shoulders of the two people touched and squeezed.
Chang Le was still shy about what happened just now, but now a little bit of contact can set off another wave in his heart.
I want to get close, but I'm afraid to get close.
I want to touch, but I'm afraid to touch.
The ice and fire collided back and forth in my heart, and it was really entangled.
As for Yu Qingze, he would like to have more people and squeeze a little more. It is best to be like the buses and subways in many big cities in the 21st century during the rush hour. There is no gap between people at all. Naturally Just stick them together.
Yu Qingze let out a laugh, looked at the young man next to him, and felt that his thoughts were a little crooked, and he felt like he was going to go crazy.
Why do you just want to touch and hug Changle
Yu Qingze smiled bitterly in his heart and let out a long sigh.
It must have been too long.
Physically, and mentally.
I want to have a loving family, a warm and smooth home.
I really want to.
I thought about it for over twenty years.
I haven't met someone I liked before, so this kind of thinking is not obvious. Now, when he finally came across what he liked, his thirst was like a tsunami, so powerful that it almost engulfed him.
When we got to the juggling place, there was already a circle of people outside.
When Yu Qingze saw someone squeeze out, he quickly pulled Chang Le's wrist and squeezed in along that place. The two finally squeezed in and stood in a place where they could see the jugglers performing.
The performance in the circle is sword swallowing.
I saw the man raised his head, put a long sword with a cold light into his mouth, and slowly swallowed it bit by bit, until he swallowed the whole sword, and only one was left. hilt.
The people around watched the performance and couldn't help holding their breath. As the man swallowed the sword inch by inch, everyone's mouths were wide open, watching intently.
Yu Qingze was not very interested in sword swallowing performances, and his focus was on Chang Le beside him. Chang Le was also fascinated, the expression on his face was worried, shocked and admired, and his concentration was no less than that of a performer.
When the man swallowed it all and spread out his hands to show it, the people around suddenly let out a burst of exclamation and thunderous applause.
"Wow! Wonderful!" "Amazing!"
Chang Le also applauded vigorously.
After a while, the performer slowly took out the sword again. Only then did Chang Le's expression completely relax. It seems that he has been worried about the performer.
When people came over with a plate to ask for a reward, Chang Le was still staring at their throats, and it was written clearly on his face, so how could he swallow a big sword
In fact, I have watched this performance many times, but I am still shocked every time.
Yu Qingze's mouth twitched slightly, and he took out five cents and threw it on the plate. Chang Le realized that he also took out two cents and put it in.
After the performance, the crowd dispersed.
The two walked forward.
Yu Qingze raised his head to see what else was fun on the street, and was going to follow Chang Le to see it.
And Chang Le was still thinking about the performance he saw just now. He was puzzled, and his pace slowed down a bit. If he didn't pay attention, the two were scattered by the crowd.
When Chang Le noticed, he could no longer see Yu Qingze's figure. He turned around in place, stood on tiptoe for a while, but found no figure, he couldn't help but feel anxious.
I lost Big Brother Yu!
Just as he was about to move forward anxiously, a hand reached out and grabbed his left hand.
He was startled and was about to throw it away when he turned around and found that it was Yu Qingze who was holding his hand.
"Brother Le, there are too many people, I will lead you."