Hedgehog

Ji Rongfu finally started his vacation on the day of his childhood. These days Ye Ning is busy painting, and I can't practice the piano. If he doesn't take a vacation, my cat will be bald by me.

As soon as Ji Rongfu was on vacation, it was much more fun at home. I immediately gave up playing with cats and harassed Ji Rongfu instead.It snowed heavily on New Year's Eve, so I slept until half the morning as usual, put on some clothes and went to the kitchen to find something to eat, and found Ji Rongfu reading in the living room.There was a thick carpet on the floor. I thought I could scare him from behind, but I was caught as soon as I got close.

"Why?" My villain complained first: "Let go of me, I'm going to have breakfast."

Ji Rongfu laughed, trapped me in his arms, and lazily kissed me on the cheek: "What do you want for breakfast?"

"Fish porridge, beef louver..." I pretended to be obedient and reported the name of the dish, and took the opportunity to elbow him, trying to get away, but I didn't expect him to react much faster than me, and grabbed my elbow directly, I don't know Wherever I pressed it, my whole arm went limp, and my whole body limp on the sofa, begging for mercy: "Don't, don't, I was wrong."

Ji Rongfu smiled heartily, grabbed me back and trapped me in his arms.He was still wearing a nightgown, with the familiar smell of grass and trees. I didn’t bother to break free, and squeezed into the single sofa with him. Fire in the fireplace.

I don't know if this fireplace can be used to roast sweet potatoes.

"What are you doing?" I sat for a while and became bored, and leaned over to look at his phone: "You asked Yang Yue to buy breakfast again?"

"Huai'an, they'll be here soon..." He stretched out his hand to play with my hair: "They've already gone to buy things for the Chinese New Year and they're back."

It turned out to be almost ten o'clock.

He was very warm, and his eyes were crooked when he smiled. I couldn't help reaching out and rubbing his face. I was about to try how long he could endure when the doorbell rang.

Ye Ning and Xia Huai'an are really energetic, they run around when it's snowing heavily, but Xia Huai'an doesn't care, Ye Ning, who is thin-skinned and tender, goes out for a lap without self-control, and everyone is frozen stupid He even proudly showed off to me with a red nose: "We bought a lot of things today..."

I saw that he was dressed like a ball, and turned him over: "Where's my breakfast."

"At An'an's place," Ye Ning was completely unaffected by me: "We bought a big sled today, and now there are only two dogs left..."

Xia Huai'an has always been a boring person, so he silently handed me breakfast, I didn't bother to listen to Ye Ning's rambling beside me, I sat in the dining room and ate, Ye Ning was still talking non-stop, when I was drinking the porridge with a spoon, He had already come back from our house, and said, "Why didn't your family buy anything?"

"What to buy?" I glanced at him: "Have you finally become a shopping guide in a mall? Shopping all day long."

"No," Ye Ning said anxiously, "Aren't you two years old?"

What am I doing.

"What does Chinese New Year have to do with shopping?"

Ye Ning looked at me with an alien expression on his face.

"How did you celebrate the New Year before?" Stars lit up in his eyes: "You should buy food during the New Year! Buy new clothes, buy gifts! Give out red envelopes! Stick window grilles..."

"Speak as if you could afford it."

"I can't afford it, but An An can buy it. Besides, didn't you make a lot of money this year?" He sat at the dining table and tried to persuade me: "Why is there no holiday in your family? Last Christmas, even the Christmas tree No, the Christmas tree in our house is huge, and I have kept a lot of photos, last time Ji Rongfu looked at it enviously for a while..."

I believe he is a ghost, would Ji Rongfu envy other people's Christmas trees?

"Is he envious of knowing that he can cut one and bring it back?"

"You don't celebrate Christmas, and Ji Rongfu certainly won't. Can you stop being arguing?"

"No." I drank the remaining fish porridge in one gulp, and seeing Ye Ning still standing there stupidly, I stretched out my hand to him: "Bring it."

"What are you taking?" He was in a daze.

"Didn't you take a picture of the Christmas tree?" I still stretched out my hand: "Show me, maybe it's ugly."

"My Christmas tree is so beautiful!" Ye Ning argued very unhappily, and took out his mobile phone from his bulging down jacket. Looking at his photo, he even leaned over to show off to me: "Look at this, this is the Star of Bethlehem, which is going to be placed on the top of the Christmas tree. This is the suet jade exquisite ball that I made for Ann in high school. It has three layers... "

"Aren't Xia Huai'an going to have a meeting with Ji Rongfu this afternoon?"

"What?" Ye Ning was at a loss: "I didn't hear that, An An said that I would go buy a dog with me in the afternoon."

"I said yes. What kind of dog to buy, you have to work hard to raise yourself like this."

After Xia Huaian went to the "emergency meeting" with Ji Rongfu, Ye Ning and I wrapped up tightly and went to the green belt of the community with an ax to cut trees.

"It's not good for us to be like this." This guy Ye Ning can't do bad things at all, and he is timid all day long: "There are surveillance cameras here, what if we are caught?"

"We didn't cut it for nothing, and we planted another one."

"The replanted tree was also dug from my garden. I bought it specially from Japan. Planting a green belt is too overkill."

"Stop talking nonsense, you still can't cut it."

"Just cut it down, don't be so fierce... Wait, don't cut this one, cut that one, I think that one is the prettiest one every day I come here..."

"Then get out of the way, and don't be struck by my axe."

It was very cold outside, and the green belt was covered with a layer of snow. I don’t know where Ye Ning saw the beauty of this pine tree. After cutting for a while, it became hot, and the pine tree was chopped so that it gave off a very fragrant pine oil smell. Ye Ning stood by and watched for me, holding a shovel. Maple trees were replanted.

"This maple tree is beautiful in autumn. I will buy another one next spring. I just go to see the cherry blossoms with An'an. By the way, do you want to go to Japan together?"

"Let's see when the time comes, I'm not like you, I have nothing to do all day, jobless."

Ye Ning was so used to me that he didn't bother to refute. He helped me move a pine tree taller than a person out of the flower bed. The tree was so heavy that it was difficult for the two of us to drag it. He ran home and brought his newly bought sled. He said it was used to reduce friction, and he asked me proudly: "Now you know how good it would be if there were two dogs here..."

I didn't bother to talk to him, I hoped he would buy two huskies quickly and bite his paintings to pieces.

After finally dragging the pine tree to the house, it almost cost me half my life. When I dragged the pine tree to the porch with one hand, Ye Ning still admired me: "Lin Sui, you are so powerful with one hand."

In fact, the tree should have been thrown in through the living room window, and dragged all the way through the porch, making a mess of the carpet, not to mention the snow and mud stepped on, looking at the time, it was almost dark, and the tree had to be fixed quickly Alright, I'll clean up this mess later.

In the end, the first step encountered a problem. The tree couldn't stand still. It was either falling to one side or the other. Ye Ning came up with a bad idea: "How about we lean it against the wall?"

"Is your Christmas tree leaning against the wall?" I glared at him, "Don't you make Christmas trees every year? How does that stand?"

"I don't know," he said with an innocent face, "It's all done by An An, I'm just responsible for hanging the stars on it."

I really wish I could put this tree on his head.

In an effort to help the tree stand as hard as I could, I sanded down the bottom of the trunk as hard as I could get out the sandpaper.After finishing it, I asked Ye Ning and me to support one side, trying to maintain balance, but this guy suddenly shouted: "I figured out a way."

"What can I do?"

"Wait a minute," he leaned the tree against me, "Hold it up, I'll get some clay, this thing can be shaped, let's get more, make a base for it, just like a tumbler..."

As he said, he ran away. I was carrying the whole tree by myself, and I was almost tied into a sieve. I only had one hand, and I couldn’t run. I swore in my heart that I wouldn’t believe Ye Ning Forest.

After a lot of hard work, the tree was finally fixed—Ye Ning, who was mentally retarded, used up a large bucket of sludge, and when he ran back to get it, he accidentally found the base that fixed the Christmas tree in the basement. Fat beating.

Decorating the tree is enough of a headache. I never like to collect small things. After hanging it for a long time, the whole tree is still green. Ye Ning opened my mind while hanging lanterns on it: "Think about it, what is there Any gifts that can be given to Ji Rongfu can be hung up, all the trees in my house are hung with candy, anyway, I can't afford the things that An An uses..."

I followed good example and snatched all the candy from Ye Ning's family.

In fact, at this time, I have already vaguely realized that I should not cut down such a big tree. It is a bottomless pit. I feel like I can’t hang up my entire wealth. Lest I go bankrupt over this Christmas tree.

When it was dark, I even put the pen I just bought in a gift box and hung it up. The whole person seemed to have been ransacked, only a few pianos and the ring on my hand were left. Ye Ning was finally satisfied: "Well, this It’s more or less like a Christmas tree.”

I cleaned up the broken leaves on the ground, and was about to clean up the footprints in the porch, when I heard the sound of a horn outside, Ye Ning immediately reacted: "No, An An is back."

"Didn't it mean that it could be delayed until dark?"

"The ideal state is to drag it until dark, but Ji Rongfu is so good..." Ye Ning left me and ran away: "I went back, and An An will definitely teach me when she finds out that I made my house like that."

This guy is very disrespectful, and a catastrophe is imminent, so he ran away first. I froze for half a second in the living room, and was about to lay the carpet, when the sound of parking was already heard from the garage.

When the door opened, I froze in the living room like a deer crossing the road under the headlights of a car. I hated surprises and gifts the most in my life. It would be embarrassing enough for me to prepare an outdated Christmas tree here. It is even more humiliating to be discovered without being ready.

"Xiao Sui, why is the house in such a mess?" Ji Rongfu was already at the entrance, and the lights were on all the way.

"Don't come in first..."

Before I finished speaking, he had already appeared at the door of the living room.

"It's messy here too..." He was about to say that when he looked up and saw me in the corner of the living room and that nondescript Christmas tree, he was also stunned.

If he dared to laugh out loud, today would be his death day.

I stared at him nervously, but the expression on his face was very strange, like helplessness, and also like a kind of relief of sudden realization. Before I had time to understand the meaning of this expression, he had already strode towards me. He reached out and hugged me.

"You," he sighed softly, and kissed my cheek. There were still snowflakes outside on his shoulders, but he looked at me with burning and gentle eyes, and sighed softly again: "You..."

While the reaction wasn't what I expected, it wasn't that bad either.

I was kissed by him inexplicably, it seems that Ye Ning is right, he really likes Christmas trees, even if it is a month late, it is still the same.

"Fortunately, it's not the spruce." His focus has always been very strange, and he picked out the pine needles from my hair: "Your shoulder is scratched here."

"That's Ye Ning, who was insane. He agreed that two people would support the tree together, but he ran away alone."

Ji Rongfu gave a "hmm", pulled me to sit by the fireplace, brought me a medicine box, and treated my scraped wounds.The firelight from the fireplace was on his face, he still had those soft amber eyes, I just glanced at him and he started kissing me again.

"Actually, I don't want to make up for you this Christmas." I tried my best to explain to him: "It was Ye Ning who encouraged me. In fact, today is almost the new year..."

"I know." Ji Rongfu reached out and touched my face with a warm smile, which made me unable to keep my mouth stubborn.

The fire in the fireplace was brightly lit, and the contents crackled and gave off a sweet and seductive aroma.

"Wait." I stood up, ran to the kitchen, took a bowl and chopsticks, ran to the front of the fireplace, picked out the roasted chestnuts I buried in the fire, there was a big bag in total, that guy Ye Ning If you don't leave me and run away, I can share some with him.

Ji Rongfu didn't expect me to have such a hand, so he laughed.

It was snowing heavily outside again, and it was already dark outside the window, as if the whole world had quieted down. I sat cross-legged in front of the fireplace, and shared a large bowl of roasted chestnuts with Ji Rongfu.The dark chestnut skin is roasted and cracked to reveal the warm yellow flesh inside, and the chestnut has a unique sweet aroma and is very powdery to eat.

"When I was young, there was a chestnut tree in front of my grandmother's house. When it was mature, it was full of trees, and many children came to beat chestnuts." I described it to Ji Rongfu: "The fruit of chestnuts is a ball with thorns. Hard, like a hedgehog, with the flesh hidden inside."

Ji Rongfu peeled the flesh out for me, and patiently listened to my story: "Huh? Then?"

"Then after we knocked down the chestnuts, we stepped on them to remove the prickly skin before we could start peeling them. I was still very young at that time, and my strength was weak, so I couldn't crush them no matter how hard I stepped on them. She came over to persuade me, and she told me a proverb, which is our dialect, saying, 'July and August can't be rushed, and September chestnuts will open themselves.'"

Ji Rongfu slowed down the movement of peeling chestnuts, raised his head and looked at me, and I also looked at him quietly, the light from the fireplace reflected on his face, and his eyes seemed to have stars.

In fact, I have a lot of things I want to say to him, I want to say: Ji Rongfu, I am not a very interesting person, I have no concept of festivals, I will not celebrate Christmas, and I will not celebrate New Year, for a long time in the past, My life is barren and boring. I may be that chestnut like a hedgehog, full of spikes and stubborn.No matter how others step on it, I just can't open my mouth.

But you have to be patient.

I need lots and lots of time to wait until the summer is over and the weather turns cool and the leaves turn yellow and all the flowers are gone and maybe sometime in September I'll open up naturally.

I would love to send you many gifts, but I have nothing but this spike.

And this little bit, the soft inner core wrapped in layers of spikes.

The lights on the Christmas tree were still flickering, I leaned over, kissed Ji Rongfu on the cheek, and whispered in his ear: "September will come soon, Mr. Ji."

All chestnuts will open for you.