Shu Ran couldn't help her, so he gently handed over some lanterns and asked her to light them, and told her to be careful and pay attention to fire safety. Jiang Xingyue smiled and replied, she has been doing this kind of thing for many years, and she lights these lanterns on the day of the New Year's celebration every year, and then extinguishes them one by one. Since my mother became obsessed with the historical costumes of the Ming Dynasty, their family seems to have been added to the daily life of the ancients bit by bit. From the Youth League of the Dragon Boat Festival to the annual Chinese New Year's Eve Celebration, they always strive to meet time in subtleties.

After lighting the lantern, Jiang Xingyue followed her mother's instructions, pasted couplets, prepared fruit offerings, fresh fruits such as bergamot, pomegranates, apples, peanuts, candied fruits, rice cakes and other dried fruits, and her mother personally lit incense, and she used a beauty to insert a pine and cypress and narcissus.

In fact, their family is not traditional, and the customs of the New Year are not all according to the old habits, but they just take this opportunity to have a sense of ritual.

But since she was in elementary school, every year her mother would make a set of clothes for her, Chinese New Year's Eve handed to her, when she was a child, it was a princess dress, a puffy skirt and the like, even if she grew up in the Ming Dynasty, there were already several pieces included in the wardrobe, this year her mother made her a silver-red gourd Jing big coat, decorated with cypress branches and persimmons, meaning "good luck for Pepsi". There is a Spring Festival Gala program on TV, some familiar faces are thousands of Chinese to celebrate the festival, Jiang Xingyue has not participated in large-scale activities for a long time, but for her mother's good wishes, she gladly adopted, and said in an upward tone: "Thank you, Mom." ”

Firecrackers can't be set off in the urban area, so Jiang Xingyue found a fireworks video on the Internet to celebrate.

She and her mother wore Ming-style costumes and enjoyed the joy they had not seen for a long time.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door outside the courtyard, Jiang Xingyue was peeling a persimmon, the last piece of skin was peeled off, and she turned her head and complained helplessly to her mother: "Aunt Wu is here to ask for your Spring Festival couplets again." ”

Mom smiled and corrected her: "Don't talk nonsense, your Aunt Wu is here to deliver dumplings." ”

Jiang Xingyue bit a crisp persimmon, walked slowly to the front of the courtyard gate, opened it unexpectedly, but saw a man dressed in wind and snow, Jiang Xingyue held a crisp persimmon, her eyes widened, and she couldn't even say: "Why are you here?" Gu Zhiyao looked at her with a smile: "Is it delicious?"

"Huh?"

"Are crispy persimmons delicious?"

Jiang Xingyue brought the uneaten persimmon to his mouth and muttered, "Shouldn't you be on the plane to London?"

Gu Zhiyao chewed the persimmon a few times, lowered his head, held her lips, and said vaguely: "It's delicious." ”

Jiang Xingyue pushed her away awkwardly, what did her mother do when she saw it, thinking of this, her expression couldn't help but become serious, and she refused to let him avoid the topic: "You haven't told me why you're here!"

Gu Zhiyao explained: "I was waiting for my flight at the airport, and my mother called, she was going to Scotland with her boyfriend to attend a meeting that I was suddenly notified to attend, so I would have to go. ”

But ...... "Why are you here?"

Gu Zhiyao raised the mobile phone in his hand, he had already sent her a text message just now, and asked her to come out to meet, he wanted to say Happy New Year to her in person, but this guy was enjoying a large table of delicacies cooked by his mother with happiness, and then cut a crisp persimmon, Jiang Xingyue thought that Gu Zhiyao was already on the plane, and there was no one to worry about in the phone, so he simply turned off the silence.

Thinking of this, I can't help but feel a little ashamed: "I—I didn't look at my phone." ”

"I'll see you go. Gu Zhiyao leaned over, hugged her, sniffed the light fragrance of the girl's body, felt inexplicably relieved, leaned on her shoulder, and said with satisfaction: "Our little moon, you are so beautiful." ”

She wore her mother's carefully sewn clothes, her hair was combed into three locks, her temples were high and her hair was low, and a magnolia hairpin was inserted obliquely.

Jiang Xingyue smiled lowly: "Go back quickly, it's cold outside." He didn't know how long he had been standing outside, and there was a chill all over his body, and the snowflakes fell on his shoulders, cheeks, and arms, and Jiang Xingyue was a little unbearable.

Gu Zhiyao hugged her and refused to let go, and finally made up his mind to let go of her, a voice suddenly appeared on the steps: "Xingyue, who is this?"

Shu Ran saw that her daughter hadn't come back for a long time, so she opened the door and took a look.

Jiang Xingyue and Gu Zhiyao were both frightened, and a trace of embarrassment of being caught by their parents appeared on their faces, Gu Zhiyao, a person with excellent eloquence, was a little clumsy at the moment, Jiang Xingyue was not much better, it was not that she couldn't tell her mother about falling in love, but that she didn't find the right time, and it was a little difficult to say, and now this time is so dramatic, it's really uncomfortable.

Gu Zhiyao was about to rescue the girl with red cheeks, but the girl took his hand first and said to Shu Ran, "Mom, he is my boyfriend." ”

Shu Ran was stunned.

The reply that I expected was already expected, and I really listened to my daughter's words, and I was a little complicated.

In fact, as early as today, she unconsciously curled the corners of her mouth while holding her mobile phone, and found that it was unusual, and her daughter, who had been raised well, had grown to the point where she could experience love.

She said lightly, "Come in." ”

Jiang Xingyue and Gu Zhiyao looked at me, I looked at you, and glanced at each other helplessly, Gu Zhiyao dragged his suitcase and visited the small courtyard that he had come to many times in his memory again.

Gu Zhiyao whispered in Jiang Xingyue's ear as he walked: "I came in too much of a hurry, and I didn't have a gift to prepare for the visit." ”

Such a freewheeling person is afraid of being inconsiderate.

Jiang Xingyue smiled softly: "It's my mother who wants to give you a gift, you are a junior." ”

After Gu Zhiyao heard this, he also smiled, it was exactly what he said to her when he went to visit his mother in London, and now he returned it to him as it was.

The two walked into the house, Shu Ran had already taken a small towel and waited at the entrance, took a picture of Gu Zhiyao's snowstorm, and asked kindly, "Have you eaten?"

Gu Zhiyao was unwilling to do something against his will, and he could say a thousand reasons, but at this moment, he shook his head obediently: "No." ”

So Jiang Xingyue had to accompany him to eat again, during which she chattered: "I will gain weight like this, and it will not look good on camera when the time comes." ”

"Is there anything more important than health?" When Shu Ran put on a wonton, as usual, he knocked Jiang Xingyue's heart reproachfully, and when he knocked it a second time, a big palm blocked the top of her head.

Shu Ran's hands paused, didn't say anything, and went to the kitchen to get busy again.

Jiang Xingyue showed off her mother's craftsmanship and gave Gu Zhiyao a big bowl, when the big palm fell on the top of her head and rubbed it gently, she just thought that Gu Zhiyao was afraid that she would be knocked by her mother, and she said to her mother for her mother's goodness: "Mom is very light." ”

Gu Zhiyao's mouth was stuffed with rice, and he let out a muttered "um" from his nasal cavity.