Chapter 15: Hawthorn

After Shen Xifan returned home, when she saw piles of sacks and gift boxes in the living room at home, when she entered the bathroom to wash her hands, she heard the sound of "fluttering" inside the plastic bucket. She was curious and lifted the lid. "Mother! There are snakes!"
　　 actually scared Dad Shen over, teasing twice with a small wooden stick, "That's a yellow eel, so indifferent?"
　　Shen Xifan was sick, "Let's throw it away from the balcony, I can't bear to watch something when I go to the toilet!"
Hearing the "squeak" sound inside the sack again, Father Shen explained, "That's a crab, this is a silver carp. Fan Fan come and help put the fish in the barrel, don't kill it, or your mother will be sad again. "
　　At dinner, Ms. Shen happily pointed at Jiangshan with chopsticks. "Pick a few boxes of good seafood for grandpa and grandfather, and those vegetables. This year, our agricultural bureau vegetables grow well."
　　Father Shen nodded, "Give me some flowers, vegetables, and fruits for the New Year. It's affordable!"
　　 Shen Xifan blinked his eyes, suddenly realized, "Oh... I said that there are so many things in the family, it is almost New Year!"
Ms. Shen is dissatisfied, "You know work every day, and you don’t even know if there is a holiday during the New Year. Your uncle sits in the village on the 30th of this year’s New Year, and they go to your grandfather’s house on the first day of the year. Home cooking."
　　Shen Qifan wailed, "I'm going to give the devil the lucky money again, I'm going to die!"
It’s really about to be the Chinese New Year. Some people from Shen’s family came at night. They were all from Shen’s mother’s office. They sent two pots of orchids—with the beautiful name
Haidie Xinyu
, six pots of kumquats, and a few boxes. Oranges, oranges, kiwis and strawberries.
　　Eat, this is Shen Xifan's only expectation for the new year. Although the material life is rich now, what she wants to eat is what she wants, but she feels that the family is reunited to have a meal, that is, cabbage and tofu is also sweet.
Someone on the Internet is talking about "how is the New Year's Eve", "what is the New Year's Eve", "Spring Festival Gala", and even more openly recruiting "temporary girlfriend" and "temporary boyfriend" online to deal with parents who urge marriage .
　　 She casually opened a webpage, which contained a request for help from the landlord asking her girlfriend for wedding items. The popularity was very high. Netizens have left messages, and it is estimated that most of them are women-they all agreed to send diamonds.
　　 really is "the diamond lasts forever, one lasts forever", no matter how elegant the woman can't resist the charm, for example, she Chen Xifan can't resist the "platinum heart shadow".
But she didn’t deserve it. She remembered Yan Heng’s deep disappointment this afternoon. She couldn’t bear it. But after all, he hurt her first. What qualifications do you have to ask for compensation now? Three years later, she missed it. Do you not forget the feelings or do you still have a grudge about the hurt?
　　 She wanted to be like this. When it was time to get married, find a suitable person, talk about a plain love, and then get married. On New Year's Day, when I went to the other party's house for New Year's greetings, the younger generation would call him "brother-in-law" to beg for the New Year's money, accompany his grandfather with a few drinks, rub mahjong with the three aunts and six wives, and then one year passed, maybe this is the feeling of the family.
　　 But she always feels unwilling, is this life what she wants, such love is her dream, in such a complicated city, is there any pure and sincere feelings that belong to her?
　　The next morning meeting, Mr. Cheng suddenly wanted to open a hotel year-end celebration, and then pay bonuses. Shen Xifan felt that this year was finally out.
When 　　 came home, she was walking alone on the road. She was attracted by the lively scene on the street. Passing the supermarket, the voice was full, people pushed the shopping cart, the children happily ran in the hall, and the cash register was crowded with people.
　　 The scene of the New Year when she was a child came to her mind. She couldn't stop her footsteps and got into the supermarket to buy rose rice cake, white rice cake, sesame rice and a box of Swiss sugar.
　　 But she was a little disappointed, why didn't there be sugar cane?
　　It happened that she had walked through Times Square and saw a few old men carrying sticks, full of candied fruit on top. The red ones were very lovable, and there were children on the side to pick them up.
　　She picked for a long time, it was easy to pick a string that looks many and beautiful, just ready to pay, there was a familiar voice next to it, "I want a string too!"
What a hell, I can still meet He Suye at this time. He is wearing a brown coat, full of sunshine, low eyebrows and a small smile. The small dimples look as sweet as candied gourds. Shen Xifan is suddenly cold, a handsome man Doctor and a bunch of candied gourds together, what a weird scene!
　　 In fact, this string of candied goose leaves the serious and cautious temperament that He Su Yeping intended to cultivate at all times. He eats beautiful and nourish, and there is no one beside him, which makes Shen Xifan speechless.
　　 Shen Xifan is strange, "How come I have always seen you lately?"
　　 He Suye smiled, "Recently busy with the boss's experiment, it is usually at this time to close the work."
　　 "What are you busy with? State secrets, biochemical weapons, or biological viruses?"
　　 "You can't have the concept of hanging pots in your head, don't think of the doctor all the time how to harm people-Jianweixiaoshi tablets, you know, it is similar to that!"
　　 "So you come to buy candied fruit?"
　　 "It's delicious, sour and sweet. Hawthorn eliminates digestion and dissipates qi, disperses qi and disperses blood stasis, especially digestion of greasy meat, and stagnation, and is full of memories. When I was a Chinese New Year, I would buy this at home.
　　 "When will you give me that medicine to try?"
　　 "Wait for you to eat and stay on the road!"
　　 "Then I'm not a pig anymore?"
　　 "Who said you are not?... Little girl, I'm kidding, don't be angry!"
　　 Gunan Huating’s year-end celebration was quite grand, but for Shen Xifan, there seemed to be nothing to attract her other than the bonus.
　　 The next ball was also very boring. During this time, she only danced with Lin Yishen, but she resigned because she was too inelegant.
　　 At that time, she was in grief, a white hand stretched out in front of her, "I don't know if I can invite Miss Shen to enjoy the light?"
　　 She blurted out, "If you don't mind that I will bomb your left and right casters, then I think..." She said that she was stunned here, how familiar the dialogue was, whether it was a time backward five years ago.
At that time, the college organized literacy classes and had to force them to learn to dance. Shen Chenfan had limited qualifications and forgot her hands when she moved her feet. She was stiff all over, and she was careful to step on each other’s feet. The dance partner had been comforting her. Don’t be nervous , Relax your body.
　　 But how could she relax, when she was going in and out of the valley, a boy said to her partner, "I'll teach her to forget, she stared at it again, the floor was pierced with holes!"
　　 She was ashamed and annoyed. When she looked up, she saw a handsome face and a pair of tender and smiling eyes. She could no longer refuse, and she was sinking by herself, and it was no longer possible.
In the future, there will be a dance party in the school. The sentence "If you don't mind I will bomb your left and right casters" has become the secret code between them. Of all the dance partners, only Yan Heng will smile and remind her, "Xiaofan, I think you stepped on my foot again."
　　 Gentle love flows in Yan Heng's eyes, just like five years ago, he familiarly took Shen Xifan's hand as if they repeated it hundreds of times and thousands of times between them.
　　 The orange luster of the crystal lamp, the water shadow is clear, Shen Xifan is somewhat psychedelic and dizzy. The sound of music is accompanied by her slight breathing sound. The emptiness in her heart is expanded and expanded again, and she strives to control some overflowing emotions.
The eyes of the people around them gathered on the two of them. It was an atmosphere that refused to be approached by outsiders. It only existed in the space of the two. She was inexplicably sinking. Suddenly, she felt that his breath was getting closer and closer. Some entanglement, some helplessness.
　　 suddenly dreamed, she let go of her hand decisively, turned around and left, just a little bit, she repeated the same mistake.
　　 wet her red cheeks, the ice water made her wake up instantly, she did not want to go back, but when she went out, she found Lin Yishen holding her coat and handbag to greet her.
　　 She was a little embarrassed, "Thank you, brother, did I show my face too much?"
　　Lin Yi smiled deeply, "I didn't expect you, sister, you are also a little grumpy. Why, the ex-boyfriend was not happy?"
　　 Shen Xifan frowned, "Brother, ask you a question, why can you guys break up with girls quietly without any warning?"
Lin Yi stared deeply, "Are you condemning me for being so arrogant? I can't say this question clearly, but it seems that this is the usual usage of boys. I'm tired and tired, even if I feel like a word is superfluous, and then passively escape , Look for new excitement, and come to the sentence "Let's break up" until the last resort."
　　Seeing Shen Xifan's indignant appearance, he added, "At that time, there were young and frivolous at that time, and the only thing missing was the word "responsibility", but who didn't grow up while hurting!"
Shen Xifan smiled bitterly, "If everyone could sit down and talk in peace at that time, it wouldn't be the situation now, and I wouldn't be able to touch the situation like this--whether it was because of his unrequited love for him or not. "
The phone rang before she had finished speaking. When she saw Li Jie’s phone, she picked it up. Li Jie asked,
Shen Xifan, are you free? Would you like to come over and eat dumplings? What kind of stuff do you like? We are all at the master's house!"
　　She hadn't answered yet, Li Jie shouted again, "There are leeks, three fresh, pure meat, beans, what kind of do you like to eat, let's pack more?" There is no room for rejection.
　　 Carrying two roast ducks to He Suye's house, I heard Li Jie's voice as soon as I went up the stairs, "Fang Kexin, you girl's family can't even make dumplings. I'll come to me!"
　　 She knocked on the door, rubbed it for a long time before someone answered the door, covered with flour, and her face was smeared with white marks. She looked a bit evil, and she seemed to be a type of girl. "Little girl, who are you looking for?"
　　 She spoke up at once, "He...Li Jie..."
He Suye looked over there, smiled at her, and her face was also covered with flour. It was like a family. Fang Kexin was wronged and sat on the sofa to watch TV. There were some people from the last party who followed her. greet.
　　Li Jie is interesting. When I saw her, she said immediately, "I was nagging you just now and you're here. It's okay now. Shen Xifan, come and help me make dumplings. You will definitely wrap it. Don't tell me you won't?"
It was still caused by Li Jie, who was covered in flour. Shen Xifan was helpless, and his hands were covered with flour and he couldn’t go to get rid of the paper towels. He Su Yekong shot, wiped her off with a wet towel, took off her apron and handed it She, "I don't need to cook dumplings."
　　 He turned and went to the kitchen, Qiu Tian gave Shen Xifan a meaningful look, and turned and went in, before he bit his lip, and it was unnatural to look away. Qiu Tian leaned on the refrigerator and watched Su Suye dumping dumplings into the pot. He said firmly, "Do you like that girl?"
　　 The hand holding the plate shuddered obviously, and He Suye turned around with a smile, and generously admitted, "Ah, yeah, you saw it so quickly?"
But Qiu Tian was scared by him. "Accident! Accident!" Then he changed into a cynical smile. "I think that girl is good, very real, and kind... Hey, you have confessed, Or was it rejected by others? It should haven't been confessed yet, really a dull guy..."
　　He Suye sighed, "Can you not be so shrewd, this guy is terrifying, if Fang Kexin knows what you are doing, you must kill you!"
Qiu Tian snorted, "I just can't see how she is doing to you, you still have a "is it?" "really?" look, can't stand it, why do you always like more girls than me, I'm quite unhappy!"
　　 He Suye's eyes narrowed, and his heart was secret, even I knew that your partner could be interesting. Otherwise, Li Jie always instilled the information of "she likes me" with me, but it seems a little reasonable.
　　 Qiu Tian reached out and lifted the lid, "Why don't you confess?"
The water was steaming up, and there was a layer of white mist on the window. Qiu Tian’s vision was a little blurred. In the dense mist, He Suye’s face showed a faint lonely, "If you don’t say goodbye to the past, how can there be a future, I don’t want to force her, I don’t want to put pressure on her, just stand beside her and she’s happy."
　　 Qiu Tian patted his shoulder, "I didn't expect the mule to evolve so fast, Darwin's theory of evolution is going to be rewritten!"
　　 This meal, Shen Xifan really ate too much, it should be said that everyone ate too much, lying on the couch with his stomach humming, motionless, Li Jie shouted, "Brother, Jianweixiaoshi tablets!"
　　Shen Xifan thought of the new medicine mentioned by He Suye last time. He smiled, and then saw him coming with a bowl of something. It was dark, but it was quite fragrant. Could it be-new medicine?
　　 It wasn’t that he hadn’t applied for a patent to put it on the market. He didn’t even have a batch number from the FDA, so he used it to let us do the experiment. Besides, if he would give money when doing human experiments, she regretted that she shouldn’t be a mouse.
　　 But it was really delicious. The taste of hawthorn and the fragrance of oranges. Qiu Tian picked it a bit and counted the names: "Hawthorn, malt, green skin, ebony, citrus aurantium, is this the medicine Gu Gu made?"
　　He Suye is serious, "This is what I played in the laboratory, is it delicious?"
Everyone laughed and reached out to scoop the things in the bowl. Shen Xifan couldn't help but looked at He Suye a few times. He propped up the sofa, his forehead drooped down, and covered his eyebrows. He approached her and spoke softly. Say, "Little girl, go for candied gourd tomorrow night?"
　　 She met his gaze and smiled, "Okay, see you all!"
　　 She remembered the bunch of candied gourds, the red syrup wrapped round hawthorn, no fancy sesame, bean paste, the most rustic candied gourd, but the most delicious.
　　 She has always been an ideal perfectionist. She hopes that her love does not need diamond decoration and gold decoration, as long as the love itself is the taste of the candied gourd. Hawthorn is added with syrup, sour and sweet, and you will never tire of eating.
　　Will He Suye be the one who handed her a bunch of rock sugar gourds in the snowy and vocal streets?