Chapter 16: New Year's Eve

On the 30th day of the New Year's Day, Yu Zhile got up early in the morning and cleaned the house with Yu Zihuan. The two men wiped the windows and plastered the floor and brushed the bathroom. They were busy until the afternoon to prepare for the New Year's Eve dinner.
Yu Zhile had prepared ingredients one after another a few days ago, and sent Yu Zihuan to buy some cooked food. Finally, she was quite satisfied with the plates filled with dishes on the small table.
On the table, there are smoked fish, sugar lotus root, roasted bran and other dishes that people in the city are used to eating, as well as the chicken stewed mushrooms and Di Sanxian that she often eats in her hometown, stewed an old turtle, steamed eight treasures rice, in Yuzi Huan's proposal also fried sweet and salty spring rolls.
"I won't have to cook tomorrow." Yu Zhile, who was finally busy, sat at the small table and suddenly straightened his waist suddenly. "No, I have to make dumplings tomorrow!"
Yu Zihuan also sat over with the chopsticks, staring at the table full of dishes. "This is too much, let's just eat the two of us?"
"I was too busy before. I forgot to make Laba porridge for you when I was at Laba. I can't deal with it in the New Year's Eve." Yu Zhile took it for granted. "I don't think it's enough. I used to go back to my hometown for the New Year. too much."
Yu Zhile sniffed the wide vermicelli strips from the chicken stewed mushrooms into her mouth. After a long time without eating this dish, the familiar taste stimulated her taste buds unpreparedly, and her eyes suddenly became sour.
This is the first time she has grown up and has not returned to her hometown with her parents for the Chinese New Year in 22 years.
Although she was psychologically prepared, even if she did not travel back to 2005, she might not be able to return to her hometown because she was busy in 2015, and she has never let herself think about the problem of whether she has the opportunity to go home. She had a good year, but in this special festival, when it was time for a family reunion, she had to admit that the word "homesick" had a magical effect on wanderers.
Yu Zhile grabbed the bowl of hot meals in her mouth to cover up her gaffe, and did not forget to greet Yu Zihuan to eat more, but could not restrain the redness of her eyes.
Yu Zi quietly ate the dishes Yu Zhile had given him, and suddenly got up and went to the living room to fetch the paper, put one on his lap, and reached out to Yu Zhile.
Yu Zhile was stunned at the tissue under his eyelids. He just raised his eyes to see Yu Zihuan. His hand holding the tissue moved forward again and gently wiped her tears.
Yu Zhile found out that she was not just a problem of red eyes. She cried out without realizing it. No wonder Yu Zihuan didn't speak just now, probably she was scared.
Yu Zhile a little embarrassedly took the tissue in Yu Zihuan's hand, wiped tears indiscriminately, and then blew his nose invisibly. The full of sadness and melancholy seemed to drain out with the tears of the nose. She looked up embarrassedly and smiled at Yu Zihuan, "I shouldn't cry during the New Year. It's because I'm not good and it makes you feel so heavy."
Yu Zihuan shook his head to say it was okay, and put a roast goose in Yu Zhile's bowl. Seeing her red nose and eyes closed, she was struggling to nibble the meat. She lowered her head and smiled lightly, revealing the small pear vortex of the mouth. "Tell me Your business."
Yu Zhile, who was drawn from his homesickness, ate a mouthful of oil, and he heard a sudden burst of thought in his heart. He looked up and asked, "What do you want to know?"
"Um..." Yu Zihuan thought for a moment, "Just talk about your hometown, your family, friends, anything."
He wanted to know everything about her, but Yu Zhile never took the initiative to say that he was worried about touching her pain, and he didn't ask easily before.
Yu Zhile didn't hide it deliberately, but she didn't think about how to explain her origins. She always couldn't mention interest in things related to herself. She was afraid that she couldn't stop, but Yu Zihuan asked at this time that she was still very interested. Talking to the , simply go with her heart, chattering about her previous experience.
"My hometown is in D City, close to the sea, nothing else, enough seafood, go to the beach in summer, and eat the squid while blowing the sea breeze. Can I eat a barbecue stand alone, do you believe it?"
"The winter in d city is much colder than here, but it is dry and cold, especially when the indoor heating is on for a long time. If there is no air humidifier, the whole person is panic, so when I was a child, I always had nosebleeds in winter. I once forgot to turn on the humidification. I got up in the morning and sneezed, my nose was splashed with a face, which scared my mother."
"My grandpa's and grandpa's are very close, but because my parents were young and private for life, my grandpa has always annoyed my dad and abducted my mom, so the two don't have much contact. A large group of relatives got together and had a lively New Year’s Eve dinner, finished chatting while watching the Spring Festival Gala, and then passed the zero to the elders to kowtow for red envelopes, and then went out to set off firecrackers, adults sometimes coax us a few A little kid went to light fireworks, and my cousin and I grabbed some points, but my cousin always shrunk behind."
Yu Zhile said that there was a little sadness here. He closed his mouth a moment and started to talk about his hometown. "I was in college for the first time so far away from home, and also the first time I came back to the city. I had a chance when I was at the Expo... "
Yu Zihuan listened attentively to her description. In her mind, the seashore where the cool breeze practiced in the summer evening emerged in her mind, and it was the embarrassment of the young Yu Zhile spurting her nose after early wake-up. After disappearing, I finally heard that she was brought up to S City, but Yu Zhile stopped suddenly. He looked at her suspiciously. She opened her mouth and changed her mouth: "I want to say that since I came to S City, I have the opportunity to go to 2010 of course. Look at the Expo 2010."
Yu Zihuan frowned slightly, and vaguely felt that her words didn't seem right.
For her, the World Expo was five years ago, but for Yu Zihuan it was five years later. Yu Zhile's heart pounded terribly. She almost said she regretted that she had broken her bones during the summer vacation of her second year of high school. If you say this, it is tantamount to exposing her from the future. Before resolving Yu Zihuan’s fear that she will abandon his heart, and how to deal with Yu Zihuan who is good at launching
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"You really want to go to the World Expo?"
"Of course, don't you want to go?" Yu Zhile, who has experienced the charm of the various pavilions of the World Expo on TV and on the Internet, can grow comparable to the virgin forest. After being forced to pull the grass, she was depressed for a whole semester. It is also partly related to this matter. Although I later visited the World Expo Memorial Hall with my university roommate, it was still difficult to understand her regret.
Back in 2005, she thought she had a chance to make up this time, but she found that she didn’t know when she would go to another point in time, but think about not breaking the law, maybe she could insist on disappearing in 2010. .
"Then do you want to watch the Olympics?" Yu Zihuan thought for a while, wondering why Yu Zhile didn't mention the Olympics to be held in 2008 first, "I think you are a northerner who would like to go to the capital more."
Yu Zhile said, "I... of course I think."
But in 2008, her family went to B city to watch together, so she didn't obsess.
"But we are not in City B." Yu Zhile clipped Yu Zihuan with a bean paste spring roll to block his mouth. "So many questions, do you still listen to me?"
Yu Zihuan bite the crispy spring roll and nodded, looking very clever, meaning to listen.
Yu Zhile looked at his stupid joy, stretched out his hand and wiped the bean paste that he had bitten with his thumb after finishing the spring roll, and then said: "My university is studying international economics and trade. It sounds like a terrible thing, and I am about to graduate It was reflected that the employment rate was terrifyingly low, but these years the economy has not been very prosperous, due to the general environment, it is not that I did not work hard..."
Furthermore, it seems that I have to mention the 2008 financial crisis that has not yet occurred at this time. Yu Zhile was very tired of demining and hurried to change the subject. "I was worried before I went to university if I would meet a top-grade roommate, even watching I learned a few tricks with online posts and found out that I was thinking too much. The three roommates all got along very well. I was also lucky to think about it."
"When I was in school, I really didn't know the hardships of life. Every day I thought about eating, drinking and having fun, where the hot and sour powder is delicious. Everyone went to eat together, what new movies were released to watch together, and I consulted with each other when I bought clothes. Let’s go back to travel."
"Haha remembered a funny thing. The two southern girls in the bedroom were taken out of the northeast cavity by me and another northern girl when they finally graduated."
Reminiscing about the days of shopping, shopping, buying, buying, and buying with roommates in college, Yu Zhile couldn't help smiling, but soon her smile gradually dissipated, and she couldn't help but sigh.
No matter hometown or university, the better the past memories, the more lonely she is now. It is better to block them up as before, take care of Yu Zihuan wholeheartedly, and save the sadness.
Yu Zihuan listened to God, with envy and admiration on his face, "It's great."
What she said was a life he had never experienced, and a life he never dared to expect, but now listening to Yu Zhile, he felt a faint bulging feeling in his heart, as if he could also Like her, she has an ordinary and happy life.
Probably because of this smooth and smooth life, Yu Zhile, who is forgetful and easy to be happy, was created, so she could illuminate his dark life like sunshine.
But because of what, the carefree Yu Zhile has fallen into this field, without identity, can't return home, and runs counter to everything in her mouth full of light?