This is how the winter vacation life began.

Whether in another time or here, I've always had winter and summer vacations. I was a student when I was in school, and I was a teacher when I went to work. But after work, of course, you can't stick to your parents like when you were a student. Occasionally, I would sacrifice my rest time to fly to different cities and countries to attend various conferences. The horizon is expanded, and the tiredness is real.

Now, I can use this identity to be lazy as a matter of course, and I'm so happy. But I also made up my mind to help my parents cook, do housework, and accompany them as much as I could, I was afraid that if I lost this opportunity, I would never have such a long time to spend with them.

So, during this winter vacation, I developed the routine of middle-aged and elderly people. I get up with my parents at five o'clock every morning, accompany my mother to the morning market for a turn, buy the freshest vegetables and come back, and then my mother makes breakfast, and my father who comes back from morning exercise at seven o'clock goes into the house to take a shower, and the family eats breakfast. Around eight o'clock, my parents went out to work, I cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and then began to organize my life during the day.

How many years have I not woken up so early, and how many years have I not visited the wet market. The last time I got up early was to attend Xiaoru's wedding in another time and space. And the vegetable market has been lost for a long time. Our younger generation is more accustomed to buying things in the supermarket, and although we also know that the vegetable market will be fresher and cheaper, we will not sacrifice sleep to get up early to go to the vegetable market.

That day, the moment I walked into the vegetable market with my mother, I suddenly felt that something in my heart was awakened. What is it? In short, in the past time and space, in the days of celibacy, I seemed to have lost my original love for life, and I gradually became accustomed to walking on campus every day, seeing the same people, saying similar things, and there were no waves in life.

But in the vegetable market, when I saw the baskets of freshly shipped vegetables and fruits, as well as the fresh food that was alive and kicked, and even the freshly slaughtered red pigs, beef and mutton, I felt that there was a kind of original wild beauty.

The vendors who have been working for a long time put the food they sell neatly, and the impact of wildness and order is even stronger.

I walked through it with my mother, looking at the vegetables and fruits, and I really had the illusion that they were smiling at me and greeting me.

In the vegetable market in the morning, there are many uncles and aunts, who pick up vegetables together, and at the same time pay off the price with the vendors, and they can also chat with each other during the short time of their parents. Here, you can learn about whose mother-in-law and daughter-in-law quarreled again, whose daughter went abroad, whose son divorced and so on, but you won't feel annoyed, you will imagine the appearance of a family and a child from these conversations, and you will also realize that maybe one day in the future, you will also become the protagonist of these gossip, and in the future, you may become a participant and leader in these gossip.

After going to the vegetable market a few times, Xu Zhekai and I called to talk about my feelings, and I said, "You see, the vegetable market is the arena for these uncles and aunts to give speeches and debates, and their strength is not weaker than yours." Xu Zhekai agreed with my words, and at the same time joked as always, "My little fairy is getting more and more fireworks in the world, will you become my grandmother when you come back to school?" ”

"Grandma, grandma, you can call it if you want." I took advantage of it.

No matter what serious topics we talk about, we end up making fun of each other.

When I call Xu Zhekai, I usually take advantage of the daytime when my parents are not at home, and I still don't know how to talk to my parents about dating Xu Zhekai. I still vividly remember the look of my parents who wanted to stop talking and felt very sorry for me after learning that we had broken up. I don't know what kind of future Xu Zhekai and I will have in this time and space, so let's not have a showdown too early.

My parents ate in their respective canteens at noon, and only came back in the evening to have dinner with me, so my family's dinner was more sumptuous, in order to go back to school and not become a pig, I basically saved lunch, but fortunately I ate more in the morning, and I was not hungry at noon.

Every morning after my parents leave, I clean up the room and make plans for the day. I spend most of my morning learning English, and I haven't changed this habit no matter what time and space I'm in.

At around 12 o'clock in the afternoon, after the end of the morning's study, I would lie in bed and talk to Xu Zhekai on the phone, talking about what each other was busy with and what interesting things were happening around each other.

Sometimes I would fall asleep in his gentle and magnetic voice, at first he was very anxious to call my name, thinking that something had happened to me, after a few times, he got used to it, I slept, he didn't hang up, waiting for me to wake up from a nap and find him as soon as possible. Therefore, every time before calling him at noon, we will replace a full battery, which has become a tacit understanding formed during this winter vacation.

After taking a nap, I usually make myself a cup of coffee or make a pot of tea, which is not only a habit developed during the exam review, because of the influence of my father, I have been drinking tea since elementary school, at that time, my father's unit always sent Monkey King Jasmine, so my childhood in my memory is always jasmine tea flavor, and when I grow up, I also have a soft spot for jasmine tea. When I went to college in Beijing, I would send my dad Beijing's famous Wu Yutai and Zhang Yiyuan's jasmine tea.

When I was very young, my mother always held me to tell me stories, and I wondered how my mother could know so many stories, so my mother told me that the stories were in the books, so when I was older, I took the initiative to read them. To this day, I still talk to my parents about the books we have read recently.

Sometimes I go online, and if I hadn't crossed over, I wouldn't have marveled at how clean the Internet ecosystem was ten years ago.

One afternoon, after turning on the phone, I suddenly realized a problem, why did Xu Zhekai and I not use QQ to contact, although WeChat did not become popular at that time, but we had QQ, why didn't any of us think of this problem. Or am I preconceived that there was nothing in a bygone era?

My QQ number has been used since high school to work, and I don't know if I can use it after crossing, so I clicked on the little penguin, entered my number and password, and actually went up, of course, the avatar is not what it looks like ten years later. But it finally went up.

I called Xu Zhekai and asked him why we didn't think of asking each other's QQ, and he was really surprised, and in the end we could only explain this unbelievable thing on the grounds that we had been dating for a short time and were together every day. Finally, we added each other as friends, and finally, we could see each other in the video.

After logging in to QQ, I found that our 614 Sixian actually had a QQ group, and the other three were still calling me in the group. I vaguely remembered that there seemed to be such a group ten years ago, but it seemed to be limited to the use of holidays, and then WeChat appeared, so I didn't need this.

Oh my God, I'm a person who has crossed over from the new era, I'm clearly an old man! I don't remember anything.

Since I remembered QQ, my time to read books in the afternoon has been greatly shortened, and of course, I don't have to call when I take a nap, because the phone contact with Xu Zhekai every day has been replaced by QQ video.

Although the pixel scum of the camera is terrible, and the network speed is not very powerful, but we can finally see the live, and we are still very happy with each other. And I was dressed up in a troublesome way at first, but then I appeared in the mirror with no face, and Xu Zhekai had no opinion, saying that it was good to see the living, what kind of bicycle do you want.

On the other end of the video, he is usually wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt and sweatpants, and his hair looks fluffy and soft, and he really wants to reach out and touch it.

Basically, every afternoon, I hang QQ, open the video, sometimes do my own thing, and occasionally chat for a sentence or two, just like when we usually meet.

He has returned to his own house far away from the school, his parents are still abroad, and his grandparents are still in Hainan, so he is still alone every day. But he lives near his home, so sometimes he goes out to play ball and watch movies together, but it is basically arranged in the morning or evening, and he leaves the afternoon time for me, and the thunder can't move.

He can cook himself, so he can't starve to death, and he is happy to be free alone.

Every day at around 4:30 p.m., I start washing the rice and steaming it first. Then I would send a text message to my mother, ask what to eat at night, wash and cut the ingredients in advance, and start stir-frying at half past five, so that when my parents get home, they can eat the delicious meal that has just come out of the pot.

At first, my mother was afraid that I would be tired, so she didn't let me do it, saying that she would wait for her to come back, but I had already made up my mind to take good care of them this winter vacation, so my mother agreed. It's just that at first, my parents were surprised that I would make so many tricks, because the one ten years ago I would have only been able to stir-fry simple dishes. I had to prevaricate with the excuse that I had taken a cooking class, but my parents actually believed it, and my father couldn't stop praising our school for doing something serious. I almost laughed.

On weekends, the family cleans up together, then goes out shopping, watching movies, and sampling some new and unique food.

Sometimes when the family goes out for a walk in the evening and comes back, they will meet Sun Hechen who is on the opposite side and come back from a make-up class. Looking at the exhaustion and vicissitudes of his senior high school student, I am even more glad that I have traveled to the university, not the third year of high school.

Sun Hechen would occasionally come to my house to ask me English questions when he was free on weekends, and watching him study seriously, it was difficult for me to associate the person in front of me with the little naughty bag running crazy outside in my memory.

I would also be curious about what kind of child Xu Zhekai was when he was a child, so I asked him to take a photo of me when I was a child in the album and show it to me. He didn't twist it, he took photos of his high school, junior high school, elementary school, kindergarten and all ages, after reading it, I couldn't help but sigh, the creator just favored him, from childhood to adulthood, he was a handsome guy, even the age of the third year of high school, everyone looked old, he looked more refreshing than others, he was really a man who won the grace of the creator!

The winter vacation passed peacefully, slowly and happily. I enjoy this life so much that if possible, I would like to pause on this plane forever and never leave.