Chapter 18: Christmas

"Food, that's to be simmered slowly through happiness. ”

The winter evening sky seemed to be soaked in thick ink, and the eyes were full of large blacks, and the stars were sparsely dotted on it, accompanied by the lonely moon, like dazzling diamonds on black velvet.

I don't know when the snow fell in the air, and it fell lightly on the uneven path, like a small white wildflower in full bloom, covering the earth with a layer of soft silk wool.

This is the first snow of the year - the first snow.

First snow, the word, itself has a romantic charm.

Encore walked in the alley, a few lingering street lamps in the moonlight, emitting a dim halo, automatically adding a feathering effect, illuminating a small area around the area, and the barking of domestic dogs came from a distance from time to time, crashing into the low wall, corresponding to the laughter and laughter in the huts in the alley.

In the distance, through those rough blue glass windows, you can clearly see the shadows of the people inside, chatting, laughing, and having fun. A happy atmosphere overflowed from the old windows, warming the long, cold winter nights.

In the long and narrow alleys, there are no traces of people in those places where there are no lights, quiet like a lonely watchman, standing lonely in this side of the world, telling the helplessness and desolation of things and people.

The two are contrasted, and the two kinds of life are touching people's hearts.

"Girl, you don't understand food, and you don't understand life. ”

Uncle Fan's words suddenly sounded in his ears, and An Ke was stunned for a moment, and suddenly a bitter smile appeared, as if he was laughing at himself.

Yes, she really doesn't understand food, she doesn't understand life, she used to love cranky, so she made a formatted schedule for herself, she felt that only by filling up her free time, she would not recall the dark and lightless days of the past, and would not be full of confusion and hopelessness for the future.

However, when all this began to become a habit, she couldn't help but indulge herself in such an unchanging, almost programmed lifestyle, living like a robot in the repetition of the resemblance of the day, without thinking, without feelings, just treating the days as worthless things for casual pastime.

So she doesn't like to take a vacation, and even a little resistant, others face the vacation after work, is to relax and enjoy, but for her is at a loss, like a certain balance is suddenly broken, and her heart will be lost.

Eating alone, she is used to it, but cooking alone, she can't do it, although cooking is too bad is one aspect, but more often she feels that there is no point in doing so, just alone, what kind of life do you want to pursue?

All the happiness and sorrow belong to oneself, I can't find anyone to tell, and I don't want to talk about it after getting used to it, and gradually I will feel that this life is just good to live by.

However, Uncle Fan's story gave her a different touch, letting her know that one person's life will be imperceptibly affected by another person, and with that person, she will instinctively love life, love everything around her, and see beautiful things.

Thinking about it so carelessly, I have unconsciously walked to the main road home, the busy streets in the center of the city are brightly lit, the traffic is busy, and there is no old and dim small alley at all.

Strings of bright night lights hang in the beautiful glass windows, glittering with faint colored light, connected like a river of stars, and the small plastic green pines are hung with colorful bells and gift boxes.

Oh, almost forgot, today is Christmas, it's the New Year in the West.

Another year is coming to an end.

Encore unconsciously stopped, looking at the familiar Dutch-style café not far away.

The "Grind Time" is also filled with a festive atmosphere, and the chef who usually guards the coffee machine is also dressed as Santa Claus, with a white beard covering most of his face, and enthusiastically dresses every passing guest with a cute Christmas velvet hat.

The white chandelier in the shape of snowflakes decorates the inside of the coffee shop into a world of ice and snow, and the rich aroma of coffee brings warmth and comfort to everyone's heart.

Encore picked a location near the window, and came in here for her temporary intention, and did not tell Mu Tong in advance, at this time, there were many people in the store, many of them were couples, sitting facing each other, each wearing a red Christmas velvet hat, whispering, and a happy smile was even better in the festive atmosphere.

Encore flicked the white pompom on the top of his head on the Santa hat, looked away from the people around him, shrugged his shoulders self-deprecatingly, and slandered in his heart, it's not Valentine's Day, what are you doing one by one.

Encore ordered a vanilla latte, and saw that the clerks were all wearing Christmas clothes, wearing red hats, different styles, at first glance they looked like walking red candles, Encore couldn't help but think in her mind what Mu Tong would look like if she also wore it, she turned her head to look around, and didn't see Mu Tong's shadow, a little disappointed.

The clean, shiny glass was glued to a giant snow deer sticker, and Encore tapped his finger on it, sketching casually, watching the people outside through the window, waiting for the waiter to bring coffee.

Suddenly, she pointed her fingers and leaned her face against the glass, because she seemed to see Wang Zhenghao, who was standing in the square, his eyes looking at Encore.

Enke was surprised that he was also here at this time, and after thinking about it for a while, he still felt that he couldn't pretend that he didn't see it, so he beckoned to him through the glass window.

Wang Zhenghao obviously saw Encore as well, but to Encore's surprise, at the moment when the two of them looked at each other, Wang Zhenghao made a look as if he hadn't seen anything, turned around and hurriedly walked away.

Encore's hand was still on the glass, a little bit I didn't understand Wang Zhenghao's abnormal behavior today, if he wanted to change his usual time, he would definitely run over with a smile and eat, but today Anke rarely took the initiative to say hello, he not only ignored it, but also turned around and left.

When Encore was pondering the reason, a delicate cup and plate suddenly put down on the table in front of him, and when he saw the white milk in the cup, Encore looked up and said, "I'm sorry, I ordered vanilla ......"

The words came to an abrupt end when they saw Mu Tong's familiar face with a smile.

"Aren't you afraid that you won't be able to sleep when you drink coffee at night?"

Mu Tong pulled over the chair, sat down casually opposite Encore, pulled her hand and put it on the cup, just the right amount of warmth, slowly penetrating from his fingertips to his heart.

Encore's face was slightly hot, he coughed dryly, raised his eyebrows defiantly, and asked, "You must be able to sleep if you drink milk?"

"At the very least, it won't make you find an unreliable reason for insomnia," Mu Tong shrugged.

"Why aren't you wearing Santa Claus clothes?" Encore gently stirred the milk in the cup, tilting his head to look at Mu Tong with a playful smile on his face.

Mu Tong: "If you want to see it, I'll wear it for you when I go back." ”

"When did I lose face so much?" said Encore clapped his hands and laughed.

"What were you looking at just now?" Mu Tong suddenly pointed out the window, and pressed his finger on the place An Ke had just touched.

"Nothing, just take a look. An Ke thought about it and felt that it was better not to pretend to Wang Zhenghao in front of Mu Tong.

When it was about to close, Mu Tong entered the locker room, and sure enough, he changed into a set of Christmas clothes and came out, but it was obviously too large, and the light yellow curly hair that was pressed by the red velvet hat made the whole person look inexplicably happy.

Mu Tong looked in the mirror, and felt very funny, smirked at himself in the mirror for a while, and then took a women's Christmas dress on the shelf and handed it to Encore, "Do you want to try it too?"

An Ke thought it was very interesting to see Mu Tong wearing it, and he was also interested, so he took it and wore it.

Women's Christmas dresses are shawls and knee-length skirts, and Encore is wearing a tweed jacket and boots today, so it's just right to change into this Christmas dress at this time.

She has a good figure, and now she outlines the curves of her whole body very beautifully, the white velvet at the cuffs and collar adds some cuteness, and the long curly hair is draped down to half-cover her fair face...... The whole thing looks a little ...... Uniform seduction.

Mu Tong looked at An Ke who came out of the locker room, coughed silently, and smiled, "It's very good-looking, it's much better than mine." ”

Encore was a little embarrassed, just glanced in the mirror and prepared to change it back.

Mu Tong grabbed her, "What are you going to do?"

"Let's change my clothes and go home. Encore found this question inexplicable.

"Isn't it okay to go back like this?" asked Mu Tong with a serious face.

Encore blinked, "Are you going to climb the chimney to give gifts to the children?"

"It's fun to have a second year of secondary school once in a while, and if you don't go crazy, you're really old. Mu Tong didn't talk to her, but took her hand and smiled childishly.

Walking down the street in a Christmas dress is unimaginable to an encore realist mind, and walking down the street side by side with another person in a Christmas dress who is also wearing a Christmas dress, and the two of them are holding a cat in a little red dress in their arms, it is simply a fantasy.

So when this thing really came true, An Ke felt that there must be a hole in her brain, so she agreed to be stupid with Mu Tong, but although she thought so in her heart, she didn't feel embarrassed at all, maybe there was a cushion next to her.

When he walked to the door of a pet supply store, Mu Tong suddenly stopped and said that he wanted to go in to buy canned cat food for Spotted, and Encore had no choice but to follow in, although he was mentally prepared, but when he really faced the surprised gaze of the little girl in the store, Encore was still a little embarrassed, and couldn't help but lean around Mu Tong to seek cover from the same kind.

There are a lot of things in this pet supply store, there are several kinds of canned cats alone, as soon as Mu Tong entered, he followed up like a spaceship, exploring everywhere, this look, that touching, and also hugged Spotted to a few cats at the front desk, wanting to talk to others, but without exception, these two received a cold reception of "give you an ass".

Banban's small glass heart suddenly shattered into a pile of slag, and he got into Mu Tong's arms and refused to come out again.

The clerk girl is a senior cat slave, not only in the store, but also has a few cats at home, seeing that Mu Tong and Encore are obviously novices, they patiently explained to them a lot of experience in raising cats, such as "what to do if a cat has bad breath?", "What is the situation when a cat does not eat?", "Does a cat need to cut its nails"......

An Ke listened to a few words casually, and the desert drove to Java, but Mu Shovel Officer listened very carefully, his eyes were like torches, and he even took notes on his mobile phone.

After receiving a lesson on cat raising experience sharing, Mu Tong bought a lot of cat snacks with very cute packaging in addition to the canned cat food he wanted to buy at the beginning.

When the little girl in the store paid for them, she touched her little head and said with a smile: "Little baby is really lucky, to have such a good father and mother as you." ”

Mu Tong glanced at An Ke, although he didn't say anything, but he couldn't see it when he smiled, and he was very cheap.

Encore blushed, trying to distinguish it, but felt that it would be more embarrassing to say it, so he simply shut up and pretended to be deaf and dumb.

"It's the second time, it seems that I have a strong sense of CP with my little sister. Out of the store, Mu Tong approached Encore and said with a smile.

Encore knew that he was talking about the last time he bought bedding, he was treated as a couple by the clerk's aunt, and glared at him angrily, and didn't want to pay attention to his faceless ridicule at all.

"Why don't the young lady change her screen name to Spotted Mom. Mu Tong grabbed his spotted paw and shook it at her.

"Boring you!" Encore ignored him and walked on his own.

Mu Tong followed with a smile, "If you have a mother, you are not a single parent......" Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped.

"What did you say?" However, Encore walked ahead, did not hear clearly, and turned back to ask curiously.

"Nothing, I mean, I can definitely be a good shoveler. Mu Tong touched his little head.

"Well, what an ambition, salute to you. Encore made a saluting gesture.

"The snow is quite thick, and we can probably build a snowman tomorrow. Mu Tong looked at the snow that had already covered his shoes and was very happy.

"Tomorrow it will be swept to the side of the road, it will not be so clean, and good things will not last long. Encore seemed to have been stabbed in the heart by something, his eyes dimmed for a moment, and his tone was lonely.

Mu Tong glanced at her deeply, a complicated look flashed in his eyes, and he didn't answer, but walked to the bench with Banban in his arms, gently brushed the snow off it with his hand, and sat down.

Under the black night scene, the stars are shining, like a dream, and the fine snow is still falling underground, falling in the halo cast by the street lamp, like a lonely dancer who is cold and resolute under the spotlight.

Mu Tong raised his face, his gentle side face was white and clear in the moonlight, as if it was plated with a layer of enamel, his golden-brown eyes were hidden under the black frames, only the slightly curved corners of his eyes could be seen, and a thin snowflake gently fell on the tip of his smooth nose, slowly melting.

"Then cherish the present," he tilted his head slightly, and smiled brightly at the lost man in the shadows, "Today is the first snow." ”

At that moment, Enke's heart was like a meteor suddenly crossed, bright and bright.