Fall in love with summer flamingos

It's been snowing in S City for over half a month now, with new snow covering the ground every day. The temperature is so low, over 20 degrees below zero, that a thin layer of ice has formed on the ground. The snow keeps falling, repeatedly covering and crushing the roadside, turning the thin layer of ice into a thick layer. Even the number of people riding electric bikes has decreased, and private cars are driving cautiously every day, with the occasional tire slipping and swaying...

The old men and women in the community who usually rode bicycles to buy groceries now walked with crutches. The children in the community ran around every day, playing snowballs and making snowmen. The big snowball rolled by Su Yangxia was not destroyed, but was given a new shape. It had two white cat ears, a pink nose made of rubber, blue glass marbles for eyes, a red mouth, and a straw hat with a hole in it that was not as big as the snowball.

Gu Shiye thought it was very interesting when he saw it. He squatted below and watched it for a long time. He took several photos with his mobile phone. Looking at the convex and deformed cat head in the photos, he thought it was funny and cute. He originally thought that it might be cleaned up by the sanitation workers in the community when he went downstairs the next day, but it turned out to be a new children's art piece.

Since the heavy snow, Gu Shiye did not let Yang Shu drive the car in again, because there was too much snow, the road became much narrower, and there were many children. He thought it was safer to park at the entrance of the community.

After getting off the car, the three of them walked in the community. Many parents were taking their children to build snowmen downstairs, and there was also a half-grown child with an excavator toy. The parents looked at the child who had just learned to play with toys and walk with a doting look on their faces, praising him, touching him, and clapping his hands from time to time.

There is also a father helping his child make a snowman, a mother taking pictures on the side, and a child with a clear laugh and an innocent smile on his face. There is a peaceful scene everywhere.

"When I was a kid, I took my sister out to play like this. I made a snowman for her, and she pressed eyes and a nose on the snowman, and even pinched its arms. It was very ugly..." Su Yangxia said, looking at Gu Shiye in a daze.

Gu Shiye looked back at him curiously and asked, "When you were a child? Did you bring...?"

Su Yangxia nodded. "Yeah, about seven or eight years old. My parents are very busy... really busy, they don't have much time to take care of us."

"But it's all in the past, and my sister is already fifteen years old," said Su Yangxia.

Meng Zhao looked at the children who were having fun, then looked at Su Yangxia, turned around and said to Gu Shiye

"Brother Ye, if I hadn't fought with him when we were kids, he wouldn't even have a single friend...

He took the little girl out to play every day. Others thought they were taken care of by their grandparents, but it turned out that there was no one to take care of them. His parents found a cook for them, who would cook for them every day and then leave. He had to take care of his sister the rest of the time.

Later, when we went to school, he took his sister to elementary school every day. When he went to junior high school, he had to pick up his sister who had not graduated from elementary school every day after class. Our deep friendship was cultivated at that time. I was like a half brother to him, taking care of the children with him.

When he entered junior high school, his sister lived in the school dormitory, and he started to feel better. Sometimes he would go to parent-teacher conferences for his sister, and when someone bullied him, he would go to school to teach them a lesson. I would go along with him, even during those years when I washed dishes and vegetables. I felt so sorry for him.

After saying this, Meng Zhao patted Su Yangxia and sighed deeply, "It's all over, brother."

"Get lost," Su Yangxia turned her head and cursed him

After hearing what Meng Zhao said, Gu Shiye felt very uncomfortable. He had never thought that Su Yangxia, who was like a little sun, had taken on such a heavy responsibility in her childhood. He had never asked about it, and Su Yangxia had never mentioned anything about him...

"Stop talking nonsense. You're the only one who talks too much. Hurry up and go upstairs." Su Yangxia pulled his clothes and winked at Gu Shiye.

As soon as he opened the door, the familiar smell of the old house drifted over. Meng Zhao pinched his nose and waved his hands in front of his eyes.

"I haven't lived here for a long time. It doesn't feel like a human being at all..."

"What? Doesn't he live here?" Gu Shiye asked in confusion.

Meng Zhao had a look on his face that said, "You don't know? Damn it, Su, you're so reserved that you didn't even tell Brother Ye."

Su Yangxia glared at him angrily and said to Gu Shiye

"I didn't mean to not tell you, I just didn't think it was necessary. I have to come back for a while every day anyway."

"Wait a minute, how are you going back?" Gu Shiye asked him.

"There's a warehouse downstairs with a bicycle inside. I ride it back every night and come back in the morning, then go to school with Meng Zhao."

"Will it take a long time to ride?" Gu Shiye asked with concern.

"No need, it will only take about ten minutes and the bus will only make four stops," Su Yangxia told him patiently again.

Meng Zhao took out his homework book and threw it on the coffee table. He then lay down on the sofa and looked at the two of them. "Do you two want to do something else first...?"

"What?" the two people answered him at the same time.

Meng Zhao was lazily playing with his phone without even looking at them.

"What can I do... Don't you two have to cook noodles and eat rice every time you come here? I haven't eaten the noodles you made for me in a long time..."

Gu Shiye looked at him and asked, "Are you doing it?"

Su Yangxia looked at him and asked, "Do you want to eat?"

The two of them answered at the same time. At this moment, they looked at each other awkwardly. Su Yangxia looked at him and said, "Then I'll do it..."

"Yeah," said Gu Shiye.

"It's really interesting you two, you're even playing the game of speaking in unison. Go quickly, I plan to do my homework well today," Meng Zhao urged.

Su Yangxia cursed in the kitchen, "Why are you pretending to be so ambitious? You're just fucking playing with your phone."

Snowy days go best with noodles, Gu Shiye thought...

The dim rooms, the old house, the aging furniture, the moldy floorboards somewhere, the dusty lightbulbs, all proved that this old house, which was as hard as cattle and horses, had protected the people who lived here for decades. Although it had retired in old age and dilapidation, it still became the most peaceful place in the heart of the child who grew up in it...

A luxurious villa can be so cold... A humble old house can be so warm...

"Okay, come and eat, don't be in a daze...

Meng Zhao went to bring the other two bowls over..."

Su Yangxia came out with a bowl of noodles and didn't forget to instruct the paralyzed snake on the sofa...

Gu Shiye looked at the bowl of noodles that was made at lightning speed and was served with a look of astonishment. "So fast? Wasn't it only a few minutes?"

Su Yangxia looked at him with an expression of "You are so ignorant"

"Don't you know there is something called ketchup? I used to use it to store food in the winter.

The older generation would make a lot of canned tomato sauce, peeling the tomatoes, boiling them, then crushing them into a paste, and finally putting them in cans, storing them in a cellar or a cold place, and then just opening them when they were ready to eat.

"There's also this ketchup, I thought it was the kind you get at burger joints."

Gu Shiye stared at the bowl of tomato noodles in shock and said

"There are so many things you don't know. Those contain additives. Eat them quickly," said Su Yangxia.

After only a few minutes of popular science, Meng Zhao had already finished a bowl of noodles, blowing on it while eating, like a wild dog that had been hungry for eight hundred years. Su Yangxia looked at him with disgust and couldn't take it back.

"You're absolutely amazing... Who's trying to steal your food from you? You're a handsome guy after all, but you always eat like a gangster. I'm really worried you won't be able to find a wife in the future because of your eating habits..."

"Hey~ If I can't marry her, I'll just blame you. I'll stay at your house and sleep between you and your wife." Meng Zhao said with a smile.

"You're dreaming... You want to sleep in the middle? Why don't you sleep on me?" Su Yangxia teased him.

Meng Zhao was drinking soup from a bowl, then looked at Su Yangxia and said with a scoundrel smile, "If you let me sleep, I can do it..."

Besides, my habit of eating fast is all because of you. It was a habit I developed when I was a kid, always wanting to go out and play with you... You heartless bastard..."

Gu Shiye had no time to listen to their jokes. He lowered his head and ate his noodles blankly. There were a lot of dried shrimps in his bowl, from the small ones to the big ones. He suddenly felt that Su Yangxia was so considerate, whether it was good to him or Meng Zhao, it was actually because of her habit of taking care of her younger sister when she was a child, the habit of observing other people's moods, the habit of paying attention to other people's preferences, and the habit of conforming to other people's preferences and habits...

What about his habits and preferences? What are they? Besides shrimp and braised pork ribs, what other fruits does he like to eat? What sports does he enjoy? What are his hobbies? What is his dream? What kind of job do he want to do in the future?

He doesn't seem to know what kind of partner he wants to find in the future...