Lin Hai doesn't know how to make dumplings, even when he is forced to play Zhou Mu, he only stir-fries. Lin Hai was lying on the bed, thinking about Zhu Muya's appearance of smiling but not smiling, he felt disturbed. He couldn't close his eyes over and over again, so he imagined in his mind how to wrap dumplings, and just like that, he fell asleep.

Time always flies quickly, when Lin Hai gets up every day, he always sees that the day is one day closer to Chinese New Year's Eve, and the previous day, he spent this in a muddle. And now, he saw that the day that was circled by the red pen was the next day, which made him sober up instantly.

Lin Hai called Tang Yin in the morning, and he felt that he couldn't sit still, even if he asked Tang Yin to help him buy a raw dumpling and send it secretly.

After that, he sat on the edge of the bed in a daze. Somehow, he suddenly thought of Lin Zhou, his only brother. He didn't know if he would be able to live a peaceful year.

On one occasion during these days, Lin Hai was very close to the purge plan. That was four days ago, and he accompanied Takekiya to the kendo hall. The bamboo and wood setter is draped in red and black feather weaving, and the black part is also embroidered with a black and gold carp. The waves are sewn around the carp, and the workmanship is very exquisite.

Takekiya watched the people fight with wooden round-headed swords, and she just knelt on the cushion, while Shiro Kawamura and Lin Hai stood by and waited. His eyes were scrutinizing, questioning, and playful, and he didn't seem to have any respect for the sport, just watching the show.

Later, a businessman from other places invited him to have a discussion, and Takekiya smiled. He didn't even wear a kendo uniform, and walked barefoot into range. Zhu Muya held the sword and shot fiercely, all of them stabbed the vital point, and the other party was two knives, so he was naturally invincible.

But he was not satisfied with gaining the upper hand, but kept suppressing the opponent slightly, and whenever the man thought he could counterattack and struck suddenly, he easily defused the opponent's moves. It wasn't until the man who fought with him collected his sword and conceded defeat that he took it back, but smiled and said some kind words from the good old man and the host. Lin Hai always felt that the merchant seemed to be strange, so he unconsciously stared at the man for a while, until he was ordered by Zhu Muya to make tea.

As he got closer, the merchant with a slightly higher forehead met Lin Hai's gaze with a smile. Lin Hai immediately fell his eyes on the teacup and no longer "overstepped".

When they came out of the kendo hall that day, Takemu Ya took Lin Hai's shoulders and whispered to him, he said, "Look at how heavy that one weighs."

What the?

How big a fish can you catch.

How did Mr. Takeki know that he was communist?

Zhu Muya smiled, he didn't answer Lin Hai's words, but took his arm and stepped into the car before him. This made Lin Hai puzzled, but he was helpless. Finally, when they returned to Sakuragi House together, Lin Hai suddenly asked out loud, is he in the list of the purge plan?

Straightforward, neat, without any roundabouts, but it made Takekiya stunned. He restrained his smile as he reacted, and he asked him how he knew about the purge plan.

Lin Hai followed Zhu Muya on the plank road, and he could hear their footsteps, rising and falling with the sound of breathing. He said that before the spirit surrendered, the mission conveyed was this. When Zhu Muya heard his words, she laughed, but his smile did not reach the bottom of her eyes.

Your honesty makes me wonder if you have other motives.

When Zhu Muya's words penetrated Lin Hai's ears, the latter obviously had a moment of fear. But soon, he covered it up.

Mr. Takeki misunderstood, I am ......

Too boring to stay in Sakuragi all day?

Takemuya stopped suddenly, her tone full of ridicule. Lin Hai, on Chinese New Year's Eve, I want to eat the dumplings you wrapped.

Lin Hai is a forgetful person, but this time he suddenly opened his mind. He remembered that Takekiya had said that two CCPs had escaped from the mountain before. He suddenly felt like smoking, and when he reached into his pocket, he remembered that he had already broken the habit of carrying cigarettes with him.

It's like catching the CCP who fled. Zhumuya had obviously handed over this matter to him, but a series of accidents happened later, so that Lin Hai had to put it aside, and over time, Lin Hai left it behind.

Now he was lying in bed, looking out the window like that until the sun lit up the room through the window. The winter sun was not bright, and Lin Hai felt that the room was still dark, but it was already ten o'clock in the morning. So he got up and planned to go out to find Tang Yin.

But what he didn't expect was that Tang Yin had been waiting for him at the entrance and exit of Sakuragi for a long time.

Her face was full of anxiety, and when she saw Lin Hai hurriedly meeting her, she said to him, Lin Hai, Lu Man was arrested.

Lin Hai wrapped pork and green onion dumplings for Zhumuya on Chinese New Year's Eve, and he couldn't pinch the beautiful pleats, so he simply wrapped a dough with filling. The finished product doesn't look like a dumpling, but rather a zygote.

He didn't care so much, but when he saw the water boiling on the stove, he put them all in there, and boiled them all the size of half a basin. It's just that most of them are boiled and the skin is scattered, and the dumpling soup in the pot looks like pork soup.

He hurriedly put them on a plate, put vinegar sauce on the side, and served the dumplings out like that.

Zhu Muya didn't dislike it, he didn't have a deep knowledge of eating. Lin Hai watched Zhu Mu Ya's methodical movements, the latter was like chewing mechanically, and he could only tell from Zhu Mu Ya's behavior of dipping vinegar from time to time that he was seriously tasting this plate of dumplings with a bad face.

In this way, Lin Hai remembered the scene when Takemuya took him to eat noodles for the first time, and he didn't think that he was a good cook, but he was afraid of his only diner now.

Yesterday morning, when he was going to go to "No. 76" with Tang Yin, Zhu Muya's car stopped them, but fortunately, Tang Yin braked in time.

After they got out of the car, Takemuya asked Lin Hai if he would make dumplings, and Lin Hai subconsciously replied that he wouldn't. That's it Zhu Muya claimed that he had something important and had to let Lin Hai go with him, and he was sorry that Miss Tang couldn't go with his fiancé to visit Lin Hai's office for the time being.

Zhu Muya wanted to send Tang Yin away in three words, and Tang Yin thought the same way. She smiled and said that she didn't think Mr. Takeki would beat the mandarin ducks, so that the two of them would not have a chance to get along. The situation is deadlocked, and the final decision is in Lin Hai's hands.

Zhumu Ya took off Lin Hai's somewhat crooked tie, and he whispered to him, Lu Man is in the consulate. So Lin Hai followed Zhu Muya away.

Before leaving, he told Tang Yin that he would be back soon.

But now more than a day has passed.

Lin Hai looked at the snowflakes falling outside the window and couldn't help but be a little irritable. Takeki Maya did not take him to the consulate, but went back to Sakuragi. He has been teaching him how to make dumplings, how to adjust fillings, and how to cook. But it's clear that he didn't study by heart.

When Zhu Muya ate a plate of dumplings, Lin Hai asked him where Lu Man was. Takekiya smiled, he said that the dumplings are very ordinary, so he is in an average mood.

Zhu Muya answered the question, which was completely unexpected by Lin Hai. He didn't expect this situation, so he didn't answer. And Takekiya didn't care about that, he said he was going to give him a gift.

As soon as he finished speaking, Shiro Kawamura walked in with a short knife in both hands. He bent down for Takekiya to take the knife down, and then stood by the door. Zhumuya motioned for Lin Hai to take the short knife less than a foot long in his hand, and the latter hesitated for a moment, but after learning from him, he took it with both hands.

Zhumu Ya smiled, and he said, this knife is called Shanghe Zongbai. Lin Hai thanked him, and the doubts in his heart really couldn't be suppressed, so he asked, Mr. Zhumu, why did you give me this.

In this brightly lit room, Lin Hai felt only warmth and light. He knelt on the cushion and looked at the man in front of him earnestly for the first time.

The hairstyle is vertical, the bridge of the nose is not straight, the smile at the corner of the mouth always seems to have a prescribed degree, and the eyelids are double. It's ordinary, but it's dazzling. His eyes hide the universe, Lin Hai can't see through it, as long as he sees those eyes, he will be inexplicably flustered.

He lowered his head, and it was only then that Takekiya's voice appeared, as if to relieve him from his current embarrassment. He said he hoped he would live.

"At least for now."

Lin Hai was silent, and he knelt on the cushion, like a corpse without self-consciousness. Without further ado, he got up and walked around him, walked through the screen, and left the house.

At the end, Shiro Kawamura said to Lin Haidao, and Lu Man is now being detained by the consulate. This made Lin Hai's hanging heart relax, and he was finally able to give Tang Yin an explanation.

Japan's abolition of the knife was officially launched in 1876, and the knife that Takekiya gave to Lin Hai was designed by him. He thinks he's done a lot of unnecessary things, but every time he breaks them down, he realizes that everything is essential.

When Takekiya came out of her memories, she heard the sound of firecrackers outside the house, and there was a noisy sound outside. He looked down from the floor-to-ceiling window of his study and saw that there were lights everywhere outside. At this moment, he noticed that the hour hand of the silver watch on his wrist had turned to twelve.

He laughed, opened his mouth and said to himself,

"Happy New Year, Lin Hai."