Yu Zhile got up early on the 30th day of the new year, and together with Yu Zihuan, they cleaned the house.
Yu Zhile had already prepared the ingredients one after another a few days ago, and then sent Yu Zihuan to buy some cooked food. In the end, she was quite satisfied with the dishes on the small dining table.
On the table, there are smoked fish, sugar lotus root, roasted bran and other dishes that people in S City are used to eating, as well as the chicken stewed with mushrooms and ground sanxian that her hometown often eats, stewed an old turtle, steamed eight treasures rice, and cooked rice in Yuzi. Huan's suggestion also fried spring rolls in two flavors, sweet and salty.
"Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, I won't have to cook." Yu Zhile, who finally finished his work, sat paralyzed in front of the small table, and suddenly straightened up again, "No, I have to make dumplings tomorrow!"
Yu Zihuan also sat down with the bowl and chopsticks, staring at the table full of dishes a little confused, "This is too much, we are only two people, how can we finish eating?"
"I was too busy before, I forgot to make Laba porridge for you to drink when I was in Laba, and I can't deal with the New Year's Eve dinner anymore." Yu Zhile took it for granted, "I don't think it's enough, I used to go back to my hometown for the New Year's Eve, and the New Year's Eve dinner was more plentiful than this. too much."
Yu Zhile sucked the wide rice from the chicken stew with mushrooms into her mouth. She hadn't eaten this dish for a long time. The familiar taste unsuspectingly stimulated her taste buds, and her eyes suddenly became sore.
This is the first time in 22 years that she has not returned to her hometown to celebrate the New Year with her parents since she was a child.
Although she was mentally prepared, even if she didn't travel back to 2005, she might not be able to go back to her hometown because she found a job in 2015. She never allowed herself to think about whether she had a chance to go home. Happy New Year to her, but on this special holiday, when the family should be reunited, she has to admit that the word "homesickness" has a magic power that cannot be underestimated when it acts on a wandering child.
Yu Zhile held the bowl and pulled the steaming food into her mouth to cover up her gaffe. She didn't forget to call Yu Zihuan to eat more, but she couldn't restrain the redness of her eyes.
Yu Zihuan silently ate the food Yu Zhile gave him, suddenly got up and went to the living room to get a piece of paper, put it on his lap, took a piece, and reached out and handed it to Yu Zhile.
Yu Zhile was stunned for a moment at the tissue under his eyes. He just raised his eyes to look at Yu Zihuan, when his hand holding the tissue moved forward a little further and gently wiped her tears.
Only then did Yu Zhile realize that it was not just the redness of her eye sockets just now, she actually cried without her noticing it, no wonder Yu Zihuan didn't speak just now, probably because she was frightened.
Yu Zhile took the tissue in Yu Zihuan's hand with some embarrassment, wiped away his tears, and then blew his nose without image. The full of sorrow and melancholy seemed to be expelled with the snot and tears. She looked up embarrassedly and smiled at Yu Zihuan, "You shouldn't cry during the Chinese New Year. It's my fault that makes you feel so heavy."
Yu Zihuan shook his head and said it was okay, he put a piece of roast goose in Yu Zhile's bowl, and seeing her red nose and eye circles burying her head and digging into the meat, she lowered her head and smiled, revealing the little pear vortex at the corner of her mouth, "Tell me about it. It's your business."
Yu Zhile, who had pulled away from his homesickness, was full of oil. Hearing him ask this, he felt a sudden throbbing in his heart. He raised his head and asked, "What do you want to know?"
"Well..." Yu Zihuan thought for a while, "Just talk about your hometown, your family, friends, anything is fine."
He wanted to know everything related to her, but Yu Zhile never took the initiative to say it. He was worried about touching her pain, and he didn't ask easily before.
Yu Zhile didn't hide it on purpose, but she just couldn't think of how to explain her origins. She was always in no mood to talk about her-related things. She was afraid that she wouldn't be able to stop. The one who confided her desires simply did what she wanted, and rambled about her previous experiences.
"My hometown is in D city, close to the sea. If nothing else, I have enough seafood. In summer, I go to the beach and eat sizzling squid while blowing the sea breeze. Do you believe that I can eat a barbecue stall by myself?"
"The winter in city d is much colder than here, but it is dry and cold, especially if the heating is turned on for a long time in the room, if there is no air humidifier, the whole person will be very dry, so when I was a child, I always had nosebleeds in winter, and once forgot to turn on the humidifier I woke up in the morning and sneezed, and my nose bleed all over the quilt, scaring my mother.”
"My grandfather's house and my grandfather's house are very close, but because my parents had private life plans when they were young, and my grandfather was always angry that my father had kidnapped my mother, so the two families didn't communicate very much. , a large group of relatives gathered together, had a lively New Year's Eve dinner, watched the Spring Festival Gala while chatting after eating, and then kowtowed to the elders after midnight to ask for red envelopes, and then went out together to set off firecrackers. When a kid goes to light fireworks, my cousin and I are rushing to get some fireworks, but my cousin always hides behind."
Yu Zhile was a little sad when he said this, pursed his lips and paused, and changed the topic about his hometown, "This is the first time I am so far away from home when I am studying in college, and it is also the first time I come back to S city. I had a chance during the World Expo..."
Yu Zihuan was listening attentively to her description. For a while, the breezy beach on a summer evening appeared in his mind, and for a while, Yu Zhile had a nosebleed when he got up early. He imagined the scene of relatives gathering to watch TV just now. Disappeared, and finally heard her mentioning coming to S city, but Yu Zhile suddenly stopped, he looked at her suspiciously, she opened her mouth and changed her mouth: "I meant to say that since I came to S city, of course I will go to 2010 if I have a chance. Check it out at the World Expo next year.”
Yu Zihuan frowned slightly, vaguely feeling that the context of her words didn't seem right.
For her, the World Expo was five years ago, but for Yu Zihuan, it was five years later. Yu Zhile's heart was pounding so hard that she almost expressed her regret that she couldn't go to S city to watch the World Expo because of her broken bones during the summer vacation of her second year of high school. If you say this, it is like exposing that she is from the future. Before resolving Yu Zihuan's worries about her abandoning him, and thinking about how to deal with Yu Zihuan who is good at launching "100,000 whys", it is best not to rashly Talk about crossing.
"You really want to go to the expo?"
"Of course, don't you want to go?" Yu Zhile, who had experienced the charm of the various exhibition halls of the World Expo on TV and the Internet, had a wild grass growing in her heart that was comparable to a virgin forest. After being forcibly pulled the weeds, she was depressed for a whole semester and applied for the university entrance examination in S city. It is also partly related to this matter. Although she visited the expo memorial with her roommate from her university later, it is still difficult to understand her regret.
After returning to 2005, she thought that she would have a chance to make up for it this time, but it turned out that she did not know when she would travel to another point in time, but thinking about it, she would never break the law, maybe she could persist until 2010 and disappear again. .
"Then do you want to go to the Olympics?" Yu Zihuan thought for a while, wondering why Yu Zhile didn't mention the Olympics to be held in 2008 first, "I thought you would like to go to the capital if you are a northerner."
Yu Zhile was speechless, "I... Of course I also want to."
But in 2008, her family went to B city together to watch, so there was no obsession.
"But aren't we not in City B?" Yu Zhile put a bean paste spring roll on Yu Zihuan's mouth to block his mouth, "So many questions, do you still listen to me?"
Yu Zihuan nodded while biting the crispy spring rolls, which meant he had to listen.
Yu Zhile looked at his foolishness, stretched out his hand and wiped the bean paste from the corner of his mouth after biting the spring roll with his thumb, and then said, "I studied international economics and trade in university, which sounds like a great deal, and I'm graduating soon. It was only when I realized that the employment rate was terrifyingly low, but the economy has not been very prosperous in recent years, due to the general environment, it’s not that I don’t work hard…”
If I go on, it seems that I have to mention the financial crisis of 2008 that has not happened yet. Yu Zhile was very tired of demining, so he quickly changed the subject, "Before I went to college, I was worried about whether I would meet a superb roommate, and even watch it. I learned a few coping tricks from the online posts, and later found that I was overthinking it, and the three roommates are very easy to get along with, and I am very lucky to think about it.”
"When I was in school, I really didn't know how hard it was to live. Every day I thought about eating, drinking, and having fun, where the hot and sour rice was delicious, everyone went to eat it together, what new movie was released, and we consulted each other when shopping for clothes. A few trips that say go away."
"Haha, I remember a funny thing. When the two southern girls in the dormitory finally graduated, I and another northern girl brought out a northeastern accent."
Recalling the days of shopping with her roommates in college, Yu Zhile couldn't help smiling, but soon her smile faded, and she couldn't help sighing again.
No matter her hometown or university, the better her past memories are, the more it will bring out her current loneliness. It is better to block them all as before, and take care of Yu Zihuan wholeheartedly, and save her heart.
Yu Zihuan was fascinated by this, with a look of longing and envy on his face, "It's good."
What she said was a life he had never experienced, and a life he never dared to hope for, but now listening to Yu Zhile talk about it, he felt a faint warm feeling of swelling in his heart, as if he could also be with him. Like her, she has an ordinary and happy life.
Probably because of such a smooth and smooth life, Yu Zhile, who is forgetful and easy to be happy, was created, so she was able to illuminate his gloomy life like sunshine.
But why is it that Yu Zhile, who seems to be carefree, has fallen into the field where she is now, has no identity, can't return to her hometown, and runs counter to everything she says is full of light