Chapter 16: Chinese New Year's Eve Dinner

On the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Yu Zhile got up early in the morning, cleaned the house with Yu Zizhuo, and the two wiped the windows, plastered, swept the floor, and brushed the bathroom, and worked until the afternoon to prepare the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.

Yu Zhile had prepared the ingredients one after another a few days ago, and sent Yu Zihuan to buy some cooked food, and finally faced the small table full of dishes, she still had a sense of accomplishment.

On the table, there are not only smoked fish, sugar lotus, roasted bran and other dishes that S people are accustomed to, but also chicken stewed mushrooms and three fresh chickens that she often eats in her hometown, stewed an old soft-shelled turtle, steamed eight-treasure rice, and fried sweet and salty spring rolls under Yu Zilian's mention.

"I don't have to cook tomorrow and the day after tomorrow." Yu Zhile, who was finally busy, sat down in front of the small table, and suddenly straightened up again, "No, I have to make dumplings tomorrow!" ”

Yu Zilian also sat down with the dishes and chopsticks, staring at the dishes on the table a little confused, "This is too much, just two of us, where can we finish eating?" ”

"I was too busy before, and I forgot to make Laba porridge for you to drink when I was Laba, and the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner can no longer deal with the past." Yu Zhile looked taken for granted, "I still don't think it's enough, I used to go back to my hometown for the New Year, and the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner was much more abundant than this." ”

Yu Zhile snorted and sipped the wide vermicelli noodles in the chicken stewed mushrooms into her mouth, she hadn't eaten this dish for a long time, and the familiar taste unexpectedly stimulated her taste buds, and suddenly her eyes were sour.

This is the first time in 22 years that she has not returned to her hometown to celebrate the New Year with her parents.

Although she has been mentally prepared, even if she does not travel back to 2005, she may not be able to return to her hometown because she finds a job in 2015, and she has not let herself think about the question of whether there is a chance to go home, and strives to live her life in 2005, but on this special festival, when the family should be reunited, she has to admit that the word "homesickness" has a magic force that cannot be underestimated on the wanderer.

Yu Zhile held the bowl and pulled the steaming meal into her mouth to hide her gaffe, and did not forget to beckon Yu Zilian to eat more, but she couldn't suppress the redness of her eyes at all.

Yu Zihuan silently ate the dishes that Yu Zhile gave him, suddenly got up and went to the living room to take the paper drawer, put it on his lap and drew one, and reached out to hand it to Yu Zhile.

Yu Zhile was stunned for a moment in the face of the tissue under his nose, and just raised his eyes to see Yu Zilian, his hand holding the tissue leaned forward a little more, and gently wiped her tears.

Yu Zhile realized that she was not just a problem with red eye circles just now, she actually cried without realizing it, no wonder Yu Zihuan didn't speak just now, probably scared by her.

Yu Zhile took the tissue in Yu Zilian's hand a little embarrassed, wiped his tears indiscriminately, and then blew his nose without any image, and the sorrow and melancholy in his stomach seemed to be partially discharged with the departure of snot and tears. She looked up embarrassedly and smiled at Yu Zilian, "You shouldn't cry during the New Year, it's me who is not good, and you are so heavy." ”

Yu Zihuan shook his head and said that it didn't matter, and sandwiched a piece of roast goose in Yu Zhile's bowl, seeing her red nose and eye circles buried in her head and working hard to gnaw meat, she lowered her head and smiled lightly, revealing the small pear vortex at the corner of her mouth, "Tell me about you." ”

Yu Zhile, who was withdrawn from homesickness, ate with a mouth full of oil, and when he heard him ask this, his heart suddenly shuddered, and he raised his head and asked, "What do you want to know?" ”

"Well...... Yu Zilian thought for a moment, "just talk about your hometown, your family, friends, anything." ”

He wanted to know everything related to her, but Yu Zhile never took the initiative to say it, he was worried about touching her sore spot, and he didn't ask lightly before.

Yu Zhile didn't deliberately hide it, but she didn't think about how to explain her origin, and she always couldn't raise the interest to say things related to herself, for fear that she wouldn't be able to stop talking about it, but Yu Zilian asked at this time, she was still very confiding*, and she simply sprang it out as she wished, chattering about her previous experience.

"My hometown is in D City, by the sea, not to mention anything else, the seafood pipe is enough, go to the beach in the summer, eat sizzling squid while blowing the sea breeze, I can eat a barbecue stall by myself, believe it or not?"

"The winter in D city is much colder than here, but it is dry and cold, especially when the indoor heating is turned on for a long time, and the whole person is panicked if there is no air humidifier, so when I was a child, I always had nosebleeds in winter, and once I forgot to turn on the humidifier, and when I got up in the morning, I sneezed, and my nosebleed splashed on the face, which scared my mother."

"My grandfather's house and my grandfather's house are quite close, but because my parents were private for life when they were young, my grandfather has always been angry that my father abducted my mother, so the two families do not interact much, every New Year is spent at my grandfather's house, a large group of relatives get together, eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner lively, chat while watching the Spring Festival Gala after eating, and then kowtow to the elders after midnight to ask for red envelopes, and then go out together to set off firecrackers, adults sometimes coax a few of us children to light fireworks, my cousin and I rush to light, my cousin always shrinks behind."

Yu Zhile was a little sad when he said this, pursed his lips and paused, and diverted the topic about his hometown, "It's the first time I've been so far away from home when I went to college, and it's also the first time I've come back to S City, and I had the opportunity to ...... during the World Expo."

Yu Zihuan was listening to her description intently, and for a while the cool breeze on the seashore in the summer evening came to mind, and for a while it was the embarrassment of the young Yu Zhile who squirted out a nosebleed after waking up in the morning, and the scene of relatives gathering together to watch TV had just disappeared, and finally heard her mention coming to S City, but Yu Zhile suddenly stopped, he looked at her suspiciously, she opened her mouth, and changed her words: "I want to say that since I came to S City, I have the opportunity to go to the 2010 World Expo." ”

Yu Zihuan frowned slightly, vaguely feeling that the relationship between her words didn't seem to be right.

For her, the World Expo was five years ago, but for Yu Zilian, it was five years later. Yu Zhile's heart was pounding hard, and she almost said that she was unable to go to S City to watch the World Expo because she broke a bone during the summer vacation of her sophomore year of high school, and after recovering, she was unable to go to S City to watch the World Expo because of the nervousness of her studies in the third year of high school. If you say this, it is tantamount to exposing that she is from the future, and before resolving Yu Zilian's fear that she will abandon him, and before thinking about how to deal with Yu Zilian, who is good at launching "100,000 Whys", it is best not to rashly say about the crossing.

"You'd love to die at the Expo?"

"Of course, don't you want to go?" Yu Zhile, who has experienced the charm of the pavilions of the World Expo on TV and the Internet, has grown crazy grass in her heart that is comparable to a primeval forest, and she was depressed for a whole semester after being forcibly pulled out of the weeds, and the university in S City for the college entrance examination is also partly related to this matter, although she later visited the memorial hall of the Expo with the death of her college roommate, it is still difficult to understand the regret in her heart.

Back in 2005, she thought there would be a chance to make amends, but it turned out that she didn't know when she would travel to another point in time, but if she didn't break the law, maybe she would be able to make it out until 2010.

"Do you want to go to the Olympics?" Yu Zilian thought about it, and wondered why Yu Zhile didn't mention the Olympics to be held in 08 first, "I thought you were a northerner and would want to go to the capital more." ”

Yu Zhile was speechless, "I...... Of course I want to. ”

But in 08, her family went to City B to watch, so there is no obsession.

"But we're not in City B." Yu Zhile gave Yu Zihuan a bean paste spring roll to plug his mouth, "There are so many questions, do you still listen to me?" ”

Yu Zilian bit the crispy spring rolls and nodded, looking particularly well-behaved, meaning that he still had to listen.

Yu Zhile looked at his stupid appearance, reached out and used his thumb to wipe the bean paste that overflowed from the corner of his mouth after biting the spring rolls, and then said: "I studied international economics and trade in college, which sounds like a very powerful look, and I realized that the employment rate is frighteningly low when I am about to graduate, but the economy has not been very good in recent years, and the general environment is caused by it, not that I don't work hard......

If I continue to talk about it, it seems that I have to mention the 08 financial crisis that has not happened at this time, Yu Zhile is so tired of demining and quickly changing the topic, "I was worried about whether I would meet the best roommate before I went to college, and even looked at the posts on the Internet and learned a few tricks to deal with, and later found that I was too worried, and the three roommates were very easy to get along with, and I was lucky to think about it." ”

"When I was in school, I really didn't know the hardships of life, I thought about eating, drinking and having fun every day, where the hot and sour noodles were delicious, everyone went to eat together, what new movies were released to watch together, when buying clothes, we consulted each other, and I also came on a few trips to go."

"Haha remembered a funny thing, the two southern girls in the dormitory were brought out by me and another northern girl when they finally graduated."

Recalling the days when she was shopping with her roommates in college, Yu Zhile couldn't help but smile, but soon her smile gradually dissipated, and she couldn't help but sigh.

Whether it's her hometown or university, the better the memories of the past, the more she will bring out her loneliness now, it is better to block them all up like before, and take care of Yu Zilian wholeheartedly, which will also save her nerves.

Yu Zihuan listened attentively, with longing and envy on his face, "It's good." ”

What she said was a life he had never experienced, and it was also a life he had never dared to look forward to, but now listening to Yu Zhile's story, he felt a faintly hot feeling of swelling in his heart, as if he could have an ordinary and happy life like her.

It is probably because of such a smooth and smooth life that Yu Zhile, who is forgetful and easy to be happy, so she can illuminate his dark life like the sun.

But for what, Yu Zhile, who seems to be carefree, has fallen into this field, has no identity, and cannot return to his hometown, which is contrary to the bright Qiē in her mouth?