cast a peach

Sister Li replied her message.

Although Zhao Guangshui was standing on the side of the road, he kept paying attention to the movement of his mobile phone, and quickly opened WeChat when he heard the sound.

Tan Mingli: I will go home early today.Do you have anything to eat?I'll bring it to you, okay?

go home early...

Haven't heard an answer like this for a long time.

Zhao Guangshui typed slowly:

"No, thank you sister, we can be together tonight..."

Before the late words were finished, the phone call came in.Zhao Guangshui was stunned, a little unbelievable, then looked at the contact name displayed on the screen to confirm, swallowed nervously, and then dared to answer:

"Hello? Sister Pear."

"Little water."

The woman called her softly, then fell silent.

Both were silently waiting for the other to speak first, and instead fell into a strange, knowing silence.

There was the sound of cars speeding past the phone.

"..."

Finally, Zhao Guangshui couldn't bear it first, and opened his mouth softly: "Sister...you..."

"Are you driving now?"

She sighed in her heart, but still had to continue, "If you are driving, otherwise, we should call later?"

"It's not very safe."

she whispered.

Tan Mingli was quiet before answering her words: "It's okay. I stopped by the side of the road."

The wind howled.

Zhao Guangshui buried his cheeks in the scarf and said, "Okay."

"You don't need to buy another meal when you come back tonight," she considered her tone, trying to make her voice sound calmer, "Tomorrow is the winter solstice... Then I thought, maybe we can make some dumplings together—— If you're not busy with work today."

Hearing that the woman didn't respond right away, she hurriedly added: "I've already bought the stuffing and skin, and I just need to pack it."

"..."

Tan Mingli lowered her head and said, "Okay, I will be back as soon as possible."

Zhao Guangshui said hello softly, and the two were silent for a while. She couldn't wait for Tan Mingli's next words, so she hesitated and said:

"Then...bye, sister?"

"Little water."

Tan Mingli called her again, a little more urgently than last time.

Zhao Guangshui's heart skipped a beat, anxiously waiting for what she had to say.

"you can……"

The woman's voice came from a long distance away, soft as a faint sigh, "Don't keep calling me yours."

Zhao Guangshui tightened his grip on the phone, lowered his eyes, and answered softly.

After hanging up the phone, Zhao Guangshui had time to put his fingers to his lips and breathe out slowly to keep warm.

When she was on the phone just now, her hand was exposed all the time, it was so cold that she couldn't feel it.

Since she was a child, she was weak and prone to illness, and was especially afraid of heat, but she was better at cold and could bear it better.

After all, she grew up in Beijing, which is located in the north, and the winter is much colder than Jiangcheng. Most of the time, the temperature is below zero. The sky is full of snow dust like powder, which is scattered by the wind, and sometimes even the ground will be frozen and cracked. A long slit like a doll's mouth.

Winter in Jiangcheng is damp and cold, but the real body temperature is not bad, not unbearable.

"I'm coming," Xia Er walked quickly to her side, smiled apologetically at her, and asked with his head tilted, "Have you been waiting for a long time?"

Finally, when the person waiting for him was found, Zhao Guangshui also bent his eyes and smiled, saying, "Fortunately, I've only been here for a while."

Xia Er is wearing thick clothes today, snow boots, a woolen scarf, and a cute halter glove with a fluffy bear printed on it. Zhao Guangshui thinks it is cute and can't help but look at it a few more times.

"Aren't you cold?" Xia Er looked at her with a look of disapproval, "You seem to be wearing a little thin today."

Just as Zhao Guangshui was about to say that he grew up in the north, so he felt fine, Xia Er held his hand: "I didn't even wear gloves...your hands are freezing."

She took off her gloves naturally, hung them around Zhao Guangshui's neck, and took her hand to put them on, and then she smiled with satisfaction:

"Well! It feels much warmer now."

Zhao Guangshui was still a little dazed, and was stunned for a moment as if he hadn't expected it. He blinked his eyes, looked at Xia'er, and then at his gloves. In the end, he didn't refuse, but said, "Thank you, senior."

In fact, the temperature today is not below zero... However, seeing how tightly wrapped Senior Xia is, she must be very afraid of the cold.

So the senior sister may be like those people who are afraid of the cold, so they feel cold for them when they see others wearing less clothes.Zhao Guangshui thought for a while and came to a conclusion, nodded in agreement, accepted the senior sister's kindness without refusing.

The two of them made an appointment to go to the pet hospital to visit the rescued bird after school. The little bird is now fully grown, with fluffy feathers, and will soon be released back to nature and live on its own.

Xia Er has been a volunteer in this hospital for quite a long time, and treats the small animals professionally and gently. They should also like her very much. As soon as they saw Xia Er, they gathered around and rubbed her trouser legs.

Zhao Guangshui likes these small animals very much, but he seldom gets in touch with them in his daily life. He is more or less reserved, and just stands aside and watches obediently.

"Xiao Shui," Xia Er saw that she wanted to get close but didn't dare, smiled and picked up a black kitten and put it in her arms, "You can try to hug them... um, yes, that's it ..."

She stretched out her hand to adjust Zhao Guangshui's cat-holding posture. Suddenly, a warm and soft little life fell into Zhao Guangshui's arms. He was so nervous that he didn't know how to let go of his hands. He stood stiffly in place like holding a baby. She didn't dare to move, and let Xia Er explain to her.

"It's so cute."

The black cat's eyes are yellow and clear, and its small tail flicks slowly.Zhao Guangshui liked it so much, he really wanted to kiss the kitten's pink nose, and sighed with Xia Er in a low voice.

Zhao Guangshui was wearing an off-white cotton jacket today, with a red scarf around it, and the bear gloves that Xia Er gave her just now hung down on both sides of the clothes.Her hair is black and soft, her eyes are black and her lips are red. Because she just entered the room from the outside, her cheeks are puffed by the warm wind. She is holding a kitten, her eyes are shining brightly, she is more childish than usual, and she is very attractive. .

Xia Er couldn't help but look at her a few more times, and said softly, "You are so good."

She just intentionally called classmate Zhao Xiaoshui, but classmate Zhao didn't seem to express her mind.

It should be accepted.she thought silently.

Does this count as progress?

Zhao Guangshui was still in a good mood until he left the hospital, immersed in the joy of holding the cat just now, walking a little bouncy.

Xia Er looked at her, only thought she was cute, with a little smile in his eyes, and considering the timing, he asked what he had been planning for a long time: "Xiao Shui, do you have any plans for Christmas night?"

Christmas?

Zhao Guangshui was stunned for a moment before realizing: Christmas is coming soon.

She had been living in the capital with her grandpa before, and grandpa didn't celebrate foreign festivals very much, and even she was not very sensitive to these festivals.

When I came to Jiangcheng this year, I saw that the citizens were very enthusiastic about making preparations, decorating everywhere, and there was a Christmas atmosphere everywhere. Even the privets beside the road were wrapped in colorful lights. She felt very novel and felt that her eyes were not enough. Yes, yesterday when I bought dumpling wrappers on the way home, I happily received a candy from Santa Claus at the entrance of the supermarket.

Ah... By the way, Sister Li, she seems to attach great importance to Christmas. She even moved a Christmas tree to her home yesterday. It is not too big, but it is very bright green. It seems that she plans to come back today to decorate.

It’s true, after all, Sister Li was born abroad, maybe for her, Christmas is even more important than Chinese New Year in a certain sense?

Once Christmas is over, the year is drawing to a close.

It was time for her to leave Sister Pear.

Zhao Guangshui's heart sank, and the joy he felt just now because of hugging the cat disappeared all of a sudden.She replied: "I don't have any special plans..."

"is it?"

Xia Er looked at her with a smile, and suggested, "Then—would you like to hang out with me?"

She added very softly: "It will be very lively in the city center on Christmas Day, and there will be fireworks."

"what……"

Zhao Guangshui was stunned for a moment, and then said softly, sorry, "I'm sorry, Senior Xia, I might not be able to go out with you that day."

Xia Er froze for a moment, nodded, and did not show the faint disappointment in his heart, but still smiled, expressing that he didn't mind very gently:

"It's okay, I'm just asking casually, if you don't have time, then forget it."

"Is it because you have a date that day?" She looked at Zhao Guangshui with a smile, and winked at her teasingly.

……Dating?

"No," Zhao Guangshui quickly explained, "I...I don't have anyone to date."

"Huh? Really? Are there no boys chasing you?"

Seeing her shaking her head, Xia Er seemed very interested in this, and said with a smile, "Don't you know, since you performed at the opening ceremony of the welcome party, you have been very famous in the school, and many people have scooped you up on the confession wall. I know if you have a boyfriend or something."

"what?"

This Zhao Guangshui really didn't know.She didn't care about these things, didn't add any confession wall at all, and was a little dazed for a while, "I don't know... I add very few people on WeChat, and basically don't add people I don't know."

"Except for a few times when I was in the library, someone came to talk to me and wanted to add me on WeChat. I thought it was polite and I gave it. Then he sent me a message every morning and evening. I didn't reply much. I sent it like this for a few days. If there is no reply, he will not send it."

she said sincerely.

Xia Er couldn't help laughing.

How should I put it, Xiaoshui is really a bit...natural?Or, wonderfully dull?

"They just want to chase you like that." Xia Er couldn't help laughing.

"Oh……"

Zhao Guangshui nodded thoughtfully, and said softly, "But chasing people like that seems strange. That is, I'm not their employee, so it's very inexplicable to ask me 'what's the school girl doing' every day."

"Then what do you think is a good way to chase people?" Xia Er asked her curiously.

"I think," Zhao Guangshui pondered for a while, "if you like someone and need to 'chase', it seems to be a bad idea. Perhaps a better way is to make the best use of the situation, actively exude charm, and attract the other person to like you. Probably like this son."

Just like Sister Li, there is no need to say any ambiguous words, and there is no need to be humble to please anyone.

She only needs to stand there with a smile upright, and it is already very heart-warming.

This statement is quite novel, and it sounds quite reasonable.Xia Er glanced sideways at Zhao Guangshui, and asked her half-jokingly and half-seriously, "Then what type do you like?"

Tan Mingli's face appeared before Zhao Guangshui's eyes.She was startled, and said softly, "Probably it's..."

She remembered what Sister Li told her that day.

"Gentle, mature, stable, and considerate. Probably such a person."

Zhao Guangshui smiled desolately, and told Xia Er exactly what Sister Li said.

After all, Sister Li is indeed such a person, which fits the description very well, so it cannot be said that she is lying.