back to 1997

So the day before the Spring Festival, the two people really closed their doors early.

Although Wang Xiaohui has only been here for a few days, they still settled her salary and commission in advance, gave her a red envelope of 50 yuan, and gave her a holiday.

After arriving in Bincheng, the two of them have been busy and almost never rested, especially Xue Dingyuan, so he stayed in bed until around eight o'clock that day.

After the two of them went downstairs, they saw Luo Xinning's car - they were going to make a big purchase, but unfortunately none of them knew how to drive. They got it back from Dr. Yu, and now it was covered in a layer of dust.

Xue Dingyuan calculated, "After the next year, you should hurry up and apply for a driver's license, and try to get me to pass the test around the start of school."

In this way, it will be convenient for future purchases, delivery and so on. If the computer store is to expand, we can't just count on individual customers' money.

Fortunately, the driver's license test these days is not the same as later, there are more and more rules, and it can still be achieved after a month of hard work.

Chu Hongsheng also nodded, because Yucai High School had to go to evening self-study, and school ended at nine o'clock every night. If he learned how to drive, he could pick up Xue Dingyuan, otherwise there would be no bus so late, and riding a bicycle would be too tiring.

But at the moment it is still impossible to drive, so the two of them looked at the car quite regrettably, but just happened to meet Yu Qingsheng coming over, he was still holding a lot of melon seeds and candies, and said to the two of them, "Xiao Xue, Xiao Chu, my dad asked if you would like to come to my house for the New Year."

Xue Dingyuan and Chu Hongsheng always called him when they made delicious food, or sent it to him. They got to know each other once and for all. He knew that they could only celebrate the New Year by themselves, so when he came home a few days ago, he said something with emotion, The old man called him to ask.

Both shook their heads, "No, no, no."

The two of them want to celebrate the New Year by themselves, and they have almost everything prepared, so they can't be disturbed by others...well, they can't disturb others.

Yu Qingsheng gave in a few more words, but both of them refused, so Yu Qingsheng handed over the things in his hands, "I won't force you, this food is a small gift for you."

This Xue Dingyuan did not refuse, and took it directly.

Yu Qingsheng asked the two of them again, "Where are you going?"

"Buy some new year's goods." Xue Dingyuan replied while looking at the car again.

Yu Qingsheng's head turned very fast at this time, "I'm driving, and I'll take you to buy it?"

That way you don't have to go home!

But Xue Dingyuan and Chu Hongsheng shook their heads together again, "No need, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, you should go back quickly."

Just kidding, it was so hard for the two of them to go out together like this, so they don't need to be caught between... Cough, we can't delay other people's reunion at home, right?

"It's okay, it's okay, I'll be your driver, and there's no charge! It's free!" Yu Qingsheng's eyes sparkled, and he looked expectant.

He doesn't want to go home, his family is a big family, the kind that gathers together every year.

His father is the eldest, and he is the eldest grandson, so...ever since he graduated the year before last, everyone has been worrying about his relationship. Every time there is a gathering, his head will become nine big.

He's only 24, he's still in his prime, and every time he feels like he's going to lose sales, so he wants to avoid such occasions.

But Xue Dingyuan and Chu Hongsheng still firmly rejected Yu Qingsheng, and they ran to take the bus.

While on the bus, Xue Dingyuan peeled a piece of candy for himself, and stuffed a piece into Chu Hongsheng's mouth, and the two of them went to the electrical store with a mouthful of sweetness.

There are not many people here, but there are still activities. After shopping around, the washing machine is settled, but it will not be delivered to the door until a year later.

I also bought a TV set, which was originally meant to be given away after the next year, but thinking of the Spring Festival Gala tomorrow night, the two of them carried it home by themselves.

These two things cost more than 1000 to [-], and both of them were distressed and happy. When buying clothes in the afternoon, Xue Dingyuan became more cautious.

However, the two of them still went to the big shopping mall first, looking at the clothes with hundreds of thousands of price tags. Buy the clothes here without even blinking an eye, we are rich."

The new year is about to start, always have a good wish to support yourself.

What's more, he really hopes to be like that...

And Chu Hongsheng gave a more calm "um", and then set a new goal for himself.

Even if Xue Dingyuan gets married and starts a business in the future, I can still buy him clothes from time to time, just say that I think it suits him well... right?

The two of them walked around the mall like this, then walked out empty-handed, and went into other small shops on both sides of the pedestrian street.

In fact, it is not small, it can be regarded as a small famous brand among young people-although it has been 20 years since the reform and opening up, it has really taken a substantial leap in the past few years, and the money in the hands of ordinary people has actually increased. , and the concept is no longer the same as in the past. The first thought of having money is to save it.

Now people dare to spend money.

But the acceptance ability of ordinary people at this time is not so good, unlike people in the next few years who dare to spend money in the future, so these current brands have been born.

Xue Dingyuan looked at the familiar names in his memory: Semir, Xtep, Baleno, Yichun, Anta, Giordano...

The corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily, especially when he saw the Metersbonwe brand.

Even if he doesn't watch idol dramas or anything, he has heard of that stalk.

But the problem is actually not here, but that although he is now an old cucumber and has become really tender, it is actually a bit unbearable for him to accept these trendy brands.

But looking at the young people coming in and out of these stores, I also know how popular these brands are now.

So Xue Dingyuan rushed in while talking about going to the countryside to do as the Romans did, dragging Chu Hongsheng along.

The inside of the store is quite spacious, and the decoration is quite high-end. The bright lights make people dizzy, and it also makes the clothes on the models more colorful and beautiful.

Xue Dingyuan and Chu Hongsheng walked all the way, and when they saw the right clothes, they took them in their hands. When they arrived at the door of the fitting room, they held several clothes in their hands, but handed them to each other at the same time, "No."

They were stunned at the same time, only to realize that the other party was actually picking out clothes for themselves.

Xue Dingyuan quickly refused, "I have school uniforms after school starts, and I only wear school uniforms from Monday to Friday at school. Buying clothes is also a waste."

But Chu Hongsheng refused to take back the arm where the clothes were hanging.

Xue Dingyuan laughed, "Okay, then let's try it together."

Anyway, during the Chinese New Year, it doesn't matter to buy new clothes.

Entering the fitting room, Xue Dingyuan was pinching the clothes... In fact, he had to admit that at least now it seemed that the style of these clothes was novel, and the material was much better than the street stalls on them, so he repeatedly removed them. The second one was replaced.

But when he came out of the fitting room and saw the mirror outside, he was stupid, and he didn't pay much attention when he was wearing it. Now he combined it and found out——Chu Hongsheng must have some evil hobbies, such as his pink and tender body clothing……

Of course it’s not really pink, it’s milky white. It’s said that his complexion is very fair and rosy. After he came out of the village, he went to Leqing and stayed away from the sun every day. His skin that was still a little dark before now can be nourished. When I came back, although it was not as white as tender, it was still quite white. With this clothes, it is clear that sixteen can shrink fourteen.

And these overalls... To be honest, even if he came back after 20 years, he still thinks it's too trendy!

But the shopping guides all praised him, he is so cute, good-looking, and discerning...

At this time, there is no adjective "cute", otherwise he deserves it.

But Xue Dingyuan firmly believed that this was just fooling him, he would not be fooled into buying such a suit!

He was about to rush back to the fitting room immediately, when Chu Hongsheng came out from another fitting room, and Xue Dingyuan was stunned.

Chu Hongsheng is really a real clothes hanger, with a solid skeleton, wide shoulders and narrow waist, hips and long legs...

What he picked for Chu Hongsheng were actually pretty ordinary jeans and a striped sweater, but they were just so handsome!

Chu Hongsheng also saw Xue Dingyuan now, and he actually smiled, "It looks good."

Xue Dingyuan was even more stunned, he was so entangled, Ma Dan, should I buy it or not?

In the end, Xue Dingyuan still couldn't bear this kind of psychological pressure of pretending to be tender, so he changed into another suit that Chu Hongsheng chose for him, which was also a striped sweater and jeans. That strong contrast, he is quite acceptable.

What's more, looking at Chu Hongsheng's body, he can still deceive himself and say that he looks so handsome in it!

The two went to a few more stores, and finally each bought three sets of clothes, and both felt that they bought a little too much for each other and bought a little less for each other. Compromising, I feel like a waste of money, sinful, but happy when I think about it.

After shopping for clothes, it was already dark. After returning home with big and small bags of clothes, the two rushed to the market again.

During the Spring Festival, before the third day of junior high school, there were basically no small vendors selling vegetables or anything, and the two of them had to prepare some green leafy vegetables.

Especially to prepare the ingredients for tomorrow's main dish, which is live fish. For Chinese New Year, pay attention to good omens, and you have to have more than enough every year.

So the two of them bought a three-jin big carp, put it alive and well in a bag filled with water, took it home, put it in the washbasin, and planned to kill it tomorrow when it was stewed.

After such a busy day, it was even more tiring than going to work. Xue Dingyuan lay on the bed, feeling that his young waist was about to break.

The main reason is that shopping for clothes in the afternoon is really exhausting!

More importantly, it seems that when there is someone to rely on, people will be lazy involuntarily.

The reliable person is Chu Hongsheng. At this moment, he is still full of energy. He first packed up the things he bought, and then put the TV into the room. I just fixed a simple shelf on the wall, and I just put the TV on it at this moment, and then I stepped back to see if the height was okay.

Seeing that Chu Hongsheng was busy with work, Xue Dingyuan was embarrassed to lie down, so he quickly stood up with a carp and prepared to cook, and the two of them bumped into a ball just like that.

Xue Dingyuan was mainly injured. When he stood up, his forehead hit Chu Hongsheng's arm, making a "bang".

The nose also took advantage of the situation, and although it was not as serious as a nosebleed, it was still sore, and physiological tears came down involuntarily.

So as soon as Chu Hongsheng turned his head, he saw Xue Dingyuan sitting on the edge of the bed with red forehead and teary eyes, and his liver trembled again from being so cute.

But fortunately, he still knew what was going on, so he hurried over to rub Xue Dingyuan's forehead.

But Xue Dingyuan didn't think it was a big deal. Recently, he felt that he was getting more and more hypocritical, so he hid, "It's okay, it doesn't hurt."

But the next second his head was fixed by Chu Hongsheng, and then he watched Chu Hongsheng's head getting lower and lower, lower and lower...

Chu Hongsheng's mouth also pouted...

Chu Hongsheng's eyes are so beautiful, his eyelashes are so long, his eyes are so deep, his eyebrows and nose are so beautiful, even a little bit of stubble is very sexy, so Xue Dingyuan heard his own heartbeat...

Then a gust of wind hit his forehead...then a second, a third, a fourth...

Then he also heard Chu Hongsheng say: It's okay, it's okay, it hurts and flies away!

Xue Dingyuan pushed Chu Hongsheng away with embarrassment - this sentence must have been learned by Chu Hongsheng and the eldest sister in the shop next door. The eldest sister's son is four years old, and he bumps into him every day when he climbs up and down. Every time the eldest sister coaxes him like this son.

"I'm going to cook, let's eat simple today, and make delicious food together tomorrow."

After he finished speaking, he ran towards the kitchen in a hurry without waiting for Chu Hongsheng to react. Chu Hongsheng looked at Xue Dingyuan's back and pinched his fingertips with a sad look in his eyes, as if he was reminiscing about the touch just now, and also seemed to want to get rid of that feeling.

So instead of following, he started fiddling with the TV.

I don’t have a cable connection, so there aren’t many channels, but the two of us are not at home anyway, so it’s enough to be connected to CCTV to watch the news, and watch the Spring Festival Gala tomorrow.

When he was done fiddling around, Xue Dingyuan also finished the meal.

The dinner is really simple. The clear water noodles and the various meat stewed in the past few nights are actually very good.

The TV is on at the moment, although tomorrow is the Spring Festival, but at the moment the inside is already full of joy, and there are children who can't hold back and have started to put all kinds of small cannons, kicks, flowers and so on outside the window of.

The atmosphere of the Chinese New Year has come out, especially after eating, when Chu Hongsheng boiled the medicine and started to stew the meat again, the smell of meat filled the room, making people feel that life is so beautiful.

The next morning, the two of them stayed in bed for a while, then got up and ate some snacks casually, and then began to display their own special skills, frying, frying and frying.

Although there were only two of them, this was the first real year they spent together, so both of them took out their housekeeping skills and did not prepare the meals until two or three o'clock in the afternoon. There are actually twelve.

There is also a plate of cola chicken wings, which can be said to be quite advanced.

Xue Dingyuan looked at a large table of dishes and scratched his head, "It seems that there are too many dishes."

Chu Hongsheng washed his hands, "Isn't it just for fun during the Chinese New Year? If you can't eat it and put it on the balcony, it won't spoil it in winter."

This is indeed the case, and in his previous life, during the Chinese New Year—he later actually seldom went home during the Chinese New Year, because on the one hand, the overtime pay for work during the New Year’s holidays is high, and on the other hand, he will be exploited every time he goes back. depends on the face...

So for a long time, he spent the Chinese New Year bored by himself, and he just ordered soy sauce for the next plate of dumplings.

But this year is different, this year someone is with him.

In the morning, they just stuffed their stomachs, and now both of them were hungry, so they started to eat regardless of the three sevens and 21s, and their stomachs became full in a short while.

Xue Dingyuan really ate too much, his stomach protruded, Chu Hongsheng wanted to put on a coat when he saw it, "I'll go buy you some hawthorn pills."

Xue Dingyuan was supported very weakly, slumped on the bed and barely raised a hand, "Don't!"

He couldn't take the hawthorn pills anymore.

Chu Hongsheng was about to go out, Xue Dingyuan groaned, "Why don't you rub it for me."

Chu Hongsheng hesitated at the door for several seconds before thinking in his heart that there must be no pharmacy open now, and then turned back while spurning himself.

He put his hand on Xue Dingyuan's stomach, and pressed it lightly, and then heard Xue Dingyuan groan, "Be careful, it's about to come out!"

Chu Hongsheng: ...

He didn't dare to use force, so he stroked lightly, like petting a purring kitten.

After groping, Xue Dingyuan really started to snore a little. He looked at Xue Dingyuan's sleeping face from the side. Looking at it, he felt that he wanted to sleep too. In the end, the two of them rolled into a ball, full of joy. Under the background sound of the TV, I slept very soundly.

The last two people were woken up by the sound of firecrackers. When they opened their eyes, their eyes met involuntarily, so they gave each other a smile.

Xue Dingyuan got up first, and he stretched out his hand to grab Chu Hongsheng, "Go for a walk."

I can't set off firecrackers by myself, and watching others set off firecrackers is considered to join in the fun.

Chu Hongsheng looked at the time, it was seven o'clock, and the Spring Festival Gala was still an hour away, so he nodded.

After the two of them got dressed, they went out. Apart from the snow, the ground was covered with red cannon paper.

In recent years, people really have money in their hands, so people started to set off firecrackers very early on, like a competition, and even in this corner of the slums, they kept ringing.

The Xue Dingyuan who hadn't been reborn would only feel annoyed, because the more lively outside, the lonelier he would appear.

But now he feels great because he is accompanied by someone.

He turned his head slightly to look at Chu Hongsheng beside him. This person always had a serious face, but...

Just as he was thinking, his feet slipped suddenly and he almost fell. Fortunately, Chu Hongsheng reacted quickly and grabbed him, "Be careful."

Yes, it is so gentle and reliable.

The two walked for a long time in the night, getting closer and closer unknowingly, the street lamps on the street made the shadows of the two people elongated, overlapped, entwined as if they would never be separated.

Then when the time was almost up, the two of them turned around, warmed up the dishes when they got home, and watched the Spring Festival Gala while eating.

This show has been criticized in the future, but everyone will watch it in front of the TV from one to thirty nights, otherwise they will feel that it lacks the flavor of the year.

But this year's program is still a classic, Zhao Lirong and Yan Shunkai are still healthy, Zhao Benshan's sketches can reflect some social phenomena, Fan Xiaoxuan is still a pure and lovely image, Chen Peisi and Zhu Shimao are still together, Peng Mama It also appears every year...

There are also Na Ying and Faye Wong. This year they sang "Meet Nine Eight" together. Listening to the lyrics, Xue Dingyuan felt a little emotional. I hope he and Chu Hongsheng can also meet each other year after year...

There is also a bit of gossip - Nicholas Tse will be singing "Together in This Life" at the Spring Festival Gala two years later!

In the middle of the night, the two of them made dumplings together again, Xue Dingyuan was in charge of kneading the dough and rolling out the skin, and Chu Hongsheng was in charge of making the dumplings with live stuffing.

Chu Hongsheng made four kinds of fillings, one with celery and pork, which will make you diligent next year after eating it, one with leek and egg, which will last for a long time after eating, one with cabbage meat, which will make you rich next year, and one with meat filling, which is called "you The dumplings are specially prepared for Xue Dingyuan.

They also prepared a copper character of [-] cents to put in the dumplings.

Xue Dingyuan, who was rolling out the wrapper, secretly pinched a dumpling wrapper, "Use this to wrap the copper characters."

Chu Hongsheng agreed, and then secretly pinched an extra pleat when making the dumplings.

At twelve o'clock, there was a climax of the sound of firecrackers outside. The two of them changed into new clothes, and then went to cook dumplings together. After a while, the steaming dumplings were served.

The eyes of both of them swept across the plate very quickly, and then stretched out their chopsticks at the same time to pick up the one they marked.

Seeing that the other party was also picking it up, the chopsticks of the two of them stopped at the same time, and then Chu Hongsheng said, "You can eat."

Xue Dingyuan really came first, he picked up the dumplings and put them in Chu Hongsheng's bowl, "Hurry up and eat."

Chu Hongsheng was stunned: "You..."

Xue Dingyuan was very proud, "Eat it!"

With his sharp eyes, how could he not see the tricks under Chu Hongsheng.

There was already dipping material in the bowl, and it would not be appropriate to force it over, so Chu Hongsheng ate the dumplings with a complicated mood.

The author has something to say: Xue Dingyuan: Why are you so physically strong?

Chu Hongsheng: Because I want to serve you well!

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This chapter is a small daily routine for Chinese New Year, maybe the next chapter can be written to enlighten you, but you have to wait for the confession you want to see.

After all, in that era, who wouldn’t be entangled, of course, the entanglement is not that I like him, but I still can’t drag him into the water~ But after going through the plot, after doing something, I will go into the water~

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