why do you like me

048 Lantern Festival

On the weekend, there are many students participating in the Lantern Festival.Cheng Jing and Jiang Chuan had already met many acquaintances before they had walked halfway.Neither of them had dinner, and when they saw the snacks in other people's hands, they asked where they bought them.That fellow Wang Yi was actually gnawing on a popsicle, wheezing.

Cheng Jing also wanted to buy popsicles, but was stopped by Jiang Chuan.

"I'll take you to eat something else." Jiang Chuan didn't think there was a problem with eating ice in the cold weather, but that Cheng Jing had a headache today. He was already emotionally ups and downs, and it would be uncomfortable to eat cold food. He really wanted to I don't know what to do.

Cheng Jing still wanted to eat popsicles, and Wang Yi watched from the side: "I heard that you two are as good as falling in love. Is Jiang Chuan taking care of all the pocket money? Eating popsicles is so boring."

Jiang Chuan glanced at him coolly: "Believe it or not, I can let your pocket money go into my pocket too."

Wang Yi had a hippie smile on his face: "Brother Chuan, spare me!"

He stepped in front of Cheng Jing, held up a popsicle and said, "Cheng Jing, I'll let you take a bite. I heard that you're not feeling well. You can't just eat something. Just one bite, or a lick."

The popsicle is covered with tooth marks, but the second half is still smooth and perfect.Cheng Jing leaned over and tried to bite, but when he was about to touch him, he suddenly smiled, put his arm around Wang Yi's shoulder and said, "Thanks, I see that it hurts your flesh."

Wang Yi burst into tears: "Cheng Jing, you are so kind!"

Jiang Chuan rolled his eyes: "Food."

Jiang Chuan guessed that Cheng Jing was really hungry, so he dragged him to eat Xiaolongbao and tofu nao.There was a seller of plum cakes nearby, and Jiang Chuan bought two by the way.

Plum Blossom Cake is packed in a paper cup, with a layer of crispy burnt skin on the outside, covered with raisins, pine nuts and other small snacks of various colors. Take a bite, and the hot bean paste will flow out. It is sweet and glutinous, and it melts in your mouth. .

Jiang Chuan warned: "Don't burn yourself."

Cheng Jing's appetite is not heavy, and she doesn't usually hang out in this kind of place. Although she doesn't have a cleanliness habit, she also likes to be clean, but this is the first time she eats this common snack.Xiaolongbao filled his stomach, and tofu warmed his stomach. Holding a small paper cup in both hands, he slowly sipped the delicate bean paste inside the plum cake.

The sound of gongs and drums came from the open-air stage in the distance, and the performance had already begun.Every household is hung with red lanterns, and the pomegranate trees on both sides of the street are also covered with small lanterns of various colors.There is no extra light, bright and dark nights are thick and colorful, distinct and intertwined, making people have different moods.

Cheng Jing wandered around for a while, looking up at the roof.Jiang Chuan didn't know what he was doing at first, but suddenly his heart was filled with happiness, and his whole body went crazy: "You wouldn't... just run away if you lost it somewhere before you were looking for me, right?"

Cheng Jing hummed and continued to look at the roof.

Jiang Chuan handed over the plum blossom cake that he had been holding in his hand, and said respectfully, "Master, please, the little one is a bastard in the first place, and the little one's life will be ruined after one by one."

"You want me to spare you?" Cheng Jing smiled, "Then do you know whose life you are now?"

Jiang Chuan: "What's yours will always be yours, young master."

He laughed to himself, glanced around, pulled Cheng Jing to the side of the pomegranate tree where others didn't notice much, hugged the boy and said, "If only I could really bear it for you."

Cheng Jing knew what he was talking about, and his eyes moved slightly: "Most people say that I did it on my own."

"It's so simple to stand and talk without back pain." Jiang Chuan straightened the boy's hair that was blown by the wind, "If everything is as simple as talking about it, can it be considered a matter?"

Jiang Chuan is tall, and he can still touch the branches when he bends down.There are clusters of small lanterns on the pomegranate tree, the lights hurt people's eyes, Cheng Jing reached out to touch them.The lanterns on a tree are all strung together and connected to electricity. Now Cheng Jing can finally see what it looks like.

Jiang Chuan put his arms around him and said, "You like pomegranate flowers. They will bloom when it warms up. There are also pomegranates in school, but they are thin and not as good-looking as here. Let's come back when the time comes."

The two walked to the open-air stage. There were very few seats, and most people were standing.Nan Xichi supported Jiang Xing to stand on a nearby stone, and each of them ate a piece of candied haws happily.On a day like this, the performances are all noisy, and everyone just watched the excitement.

Cheng Jing handed the remaining plum cake to Jiang Xing, and the four of them stood and watched the performance for a while, when Jiang Chuan suddenly thought of something and asked Nan Xichi, "Where's your boyfriend?"

Nan Xichi glanced at Jiang Xing, but the girl didn't respond, she put her arm around Cheng Jing's.He tilted his head and whispered in Jiang Chuan's ear, "It's over."

Jiang Chuan: "..."

Nan Xichi didn't feel embarrassed either, and said with a smile, "Now I know how long you haven't cared about me."

Jiang Xing fell in love with Cheng Jing, and Jiang Chuan took Nan Xichi to chat for a while.He told about Cheng Jing's plan to go abroad on June 25th, and said, "The timing is so coincidental, I'm a little anxious."

"What's the hurry?"

"Don't say that I can't stabilize in the top ten of my grade. Even if I get in, I can't compare with Cheng Jing's results. June 23rd is about the time when the results of the college entrance examination will be announced. If I don't do well in the exam, I really have no face to send Cheng Jing off. "

He only wanted to be with Cheng Jing in his heart and had no other plans.The third year of high school is entering the next semester, and every day I have to be reminded by the teachers of various subjects that if I don't hurry up, there is really no hope.Although the results of each test are not bad, what he wants now is not "not bad".

What's more, he still wanted to leave [-] yuan for Jin Min.

While earning money while reviewing, he didn't feel tired. He thought that he was getting closer and closer to his goal step by step, and he was happily memorizing textbooks in his sleepy dreams.Now that he suddenly knew the exact time of Cheng Jing's departure, he suddenly felt that there was not much to come, and if he could not reach the first step, let alone the next one.

He was so wronged that he scratched the wall: "I don't want to break up, and I don't want to be separated from Cheng Jing for so long."

Nan Xichi looked at him and smiled nonchalantly: "Over there in the logistics park, you should stop for a while. Your mother should also have some savings in her hand. After a while, you can continue to save."

Jiang Chuan knew, and indeed planned to do so.But he just couldn't help being nervous and worried about the future.It is rare for him to worry about gains and losses, and the mood at this moment can be said to be the first time.

The two chatted for a long time, and Cheng Jing looked over several times.After meeting his eyes again, Jiang Chuan stomped his feet and walked over.

He asked, "Tired?"

Cheng Jing: "I don't really want to see it."

"Xingzi," Jiang Chuan turned to look at his sister, "Me, Cheng Jing and Chizi, you choose one to be your younger brother tonight."

Jiang Xing: "..."

Jiang Xing rolled his eyes, leaned over and hugged Nan Xichi's waist, and hummed at Jiang Chuan: "I'll go find my mother later."

The people from the program team came over immediately, and the auditorium on the stage side was being cleared.Although the woman would not participate, Cheng Jing had no interest in it either.He asked, "Can the roof go up now?"

He watched for a long time, but he didn't see any bear children running around on the roof. How bearish Jiangchuan was back then.

"Please, young master." Jiang Chuan cupped his hands, "Can we forget about going to the roof?"

Some people were upset by driving people from the auditorium. Several female students turned around and left. When passing by, they saw Cheng Jing and hurriedly said hello: "Cheng Jing hasn't seen you for a long time, do you want to go to the boat together?" ?”

Several rivers are connected together, and you can swim around Xitangkou by boat.There is a temple at the end, you can go in and make a wish.Cheng Jing had a lot of emotional ups and downs today, looking cute and quiet at the moment, Jiang Chuan still didn't want him to board the boat, so he took out two coins and handed them to the female classmate, saying: "Cheng Jing is not feeling well, I will go back in a while, help me Let's make a wish."

Cheng Jing looked at him and didn't refute.

The girl who took the coin asked, "What wish do you want to make?"

"Xu..." Jiang Chuan hesitated for a moment, "Cheng Jing's is 'good health, everything goes well', and mine is 'gold list title, all wishes come true'."

"Oh, Jiang Chuan, you have really turned your back on the evil and returned to the right, and you still have the title on the gold list. Today's title on the gold list is waiting in line."

"Just wait, please."

After laughing for a while, Cheng Jing said, "If you don't let me go on the roof or on the boat, then can you let me go on you?"

Jiang Chuan: "..."

The stars are coming, and there are more and more people on the stage.Jiang Chuan pulled Cheng Jing and walked to the other side of the street, his shoulders kept shaking: "Baby, do you know that you should go to the abstinence department? What do they say, the high-cold abstinence department."

Cheng Jing looked puzzled.

Jiang Chuan looked back at the female classmates who had disappeared, and said, "They often say it in class, but you just look alike, and it really has nothing to do with these words."

Cheng Jing doesn't go to school, but she has always had a strong sense of presence.Jiang Chuan doesn't really join in the fun, but when he sees others talking about Cheng Jing, he will listen secretly, and then the villain in his heart will dance there, "that's right" and "a bit of nonsense" for a while.

The number of people on the road gradually decreased, and some small stall owners were actually packing up their things, preparing to go to see the stars.An old man selling paper lanterns by the bridge hummed a little song slowly, and the voice came over clearly.

The cart was full of lanterns. The old man lowered his head and wrote calligraphy on the oiled paper of the lanterns. He looked up and saw Cheng Jing and Jiang Chuan walking over, and said with a smile, "Kid, do you want to buy a lantern?"

Cheng Jing nodded: "Give us two."

Turning to ask Jiang Chuan: "What color do you want?"

Jiang Chuan: "Pink."

Cheng Jing: "Do you like pink?"

Jiang Chuan: "No. Xingzi likes this thing very much, but it always breaks, so bring it back to her later."

Cheng Jing asked again: "Then what color do you like?"

Jiang Chuan thought for a while: "Whatever."

Cheng Jing glanced at him, turned to the old man and said, "One blue and one pink, thank you."

The oil paper on the lantern was folded and piled up beside it like a fan. The old man took out two sheets of pink and blue, spread them carefully in front of him, licked the ink in the inkstone with the tip of a brush, and said slowly, "What do you want to draw on it?"

Cheng Jing looked at the hanging lantern.The lantern is only the size of a grapefruit, and the paper is colorful, but the paintings and inscriptions on it are all in light black ink. The characters are very elegant, and the paintings are playful and elegant, which is different from those printed directly by machines.He thought for a while and said, "Can I write it myself?"

The old man smiled: "Okay."

He waved to Cheng Jing, pulled Cheng Jing to his side, and handed the brush to Cheng Jing tremblingly, while Jiang Chuan lay on the opposite side with an expectant expression.

Cheng Jing hadn't written for a long time, so she first drew a few strokes on the white paper that was stained with some ink spots, and then said while writing: "I can't write well, grandpa, your handwriting is so beautiful."

He squeezed the barrel of the pen and wrote:

The flowers were not old last year, and the moon is round again this year.Don't teach to be biased, and Huaheyue, everyone is a young man.

The old man smiled: "It's very beautiful, there is no need to compare our writing."

Jiang Chuan tilted his head to look at the traditional characters written by Cheng Jing for a long time, barely recognized them all, and smiled: "It's very beautiful."

He had no interest in small things like lanterns at first, but suddenly said: "Can you give this to me? You can buy another one."

Cheng Jing was planning to continue writing something on the pink one, but he stopped and returned the brush to the old man, saying, "Please draw a rabbit, it's cute."

After the old man finished drawing, he took out the bamboo strips and tied up the lantern, and put a flat round candle wrapped in tin foil inside, and lit it.

"This is for you." Cheng Jing pointed to the blue lamp in Jiang Chuan's hand, and then pointed to the pink lamp in his own hand, "I'll give this to Jiang Xing later."

Jiang Chuan felt that his small thoughts had been discovered, and he was not embarrassed, so he walked around for a while with his arm around Cheng Jing's shoulder.Occasionally meeting acquaintances, the two of them did not avoid suspicion and greeted directly. Anyway, there were many people hooking up.

Before going back, they made a detour to the restaurant.Most of the people in the shop went to see the stars. Jin Min and another waiter were talking and laughing behind the cash register with a few knitting patterns, and Jiang Xing was drawing at the door with a drawing board.

Cheng Jing handed the lantern to Jiang Xing, and Jiang Chuan went to the back kitchen to make a bowl of sweet Lantern Festival for everyone, and dragged Cheng Jing away after eating.Jiang Xing hasn't started school yet, and he will go back to continue class tomorrow.He couldn't see it on the surface, but he was worried about letting Cheng Jing go back alone, so he dragged Cheng Jing to his home.

He waited for Cheng Jing to fall asleep, then blew out the candles in the lantern, carefully gathered up the bamboo strips, and flattened the oiled paper on the table.Feeling a little warm to the touch, Jiang Chuan carefully looked at the two sentences written by Cheng Jing, read them again in his heart, and then folded them up and put them in the book.

The flowers were not old last year, and the moon is round again this year.

Don't teach to be biased, and Huaheyue, everyone is a young man.

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