The passing years slipped away quickly under their noses, and the morning alarm clock was the music they listened to the most, because time was composed by it into an alarm song that could never be sung.

The weather here is very changeable, incomprehensible, cloudy and rainy seems to change with the morning, noon and evening, for several days in a row.

Jiang Xiaomian has not yet adapted to the autumn in London, and winter is coming;

Before you can appreciate the golden color of London, the whole city changes color;

Why couldn't he stand Chi Yanghe lying on the bed, he didn't wake up.

The year has come to an end.

Since December, the winter in London has begun to snow heavily, although Jiang Xiaomian has been in Beijing for three years, and Changnan has also snowed twice, but she is still a little uncomfortable with the snowy weather.

A few days ago, Jiang Xiaomian followed Sally and the children to build a snowman, and when she came back, several chilblains popped up on her fingers, her hands were swollen like red balloons with sufficient air, and after the flesh was cracked at the joints, pus began to melt. Jiang Xiaomian knew that he couldn't scratch it, but he couldn't help it. After being tortured by chilblains repeatedly, Jiang Xiaomian was really glad that he was a southerner.

Later, after the frostbite was cured, Jiang Xiaomian no longer dared to build snowballs with them, so he stayed in the heated room to accompany Chi Yanghe. And Sally and her three nephews are not afraid of the cold as if they have immunity, and they go to build snowballs every day, and their hands are still as white and fat as snowballs.

When I woke up today, it wasn't very bright, and there was still a thick layer of snow outside, and a white light shone in the dim light. After Jiang Xiaomian got up and washed up to change clothes, Sally moved a bag of clothes and broke into Jiang Xiaomian's room.

Sally's personality is a bit similar to Lin Shen, and if you compare it carefully, Sally's naughty and clever are more mature and stable than Lin Shen.

"Xiaomian, look at the winter coat I prepared for you!" Sally unfolded the padded coats one by one, compared them to the mirror and threw them behind Jiang Xiaomian's bed.

Those clothes were the size of three sacks, and they were all new winter products from the Chijia Garment Factory.

Well, next to their house, it seems that Jiang Xiaomian will not be short of clothes to wear! Not only is she not short of clothes, but she is also the kind of "guest" who eats and drinks for nothing.

Jiang Xiaomian didn't know why the word "guest" was put in quotation marks.

If you don't put the quotation marks, she is not a guest to be exact.

I don't know why I'm entangled in this quotation mark.

"Xiaomian, will it snow in your hometown?"

Jiang Xiaomian stopped the velvet slippers that he was knitting in his hand, shook his head and said, "My family belongs to Jiangnan Nuan Township, and it won't snow, unless the weather is neurotic." ”

"Haha! How can the weather be neurotic, you talk so funny. ”

Jiang Xiaomian pulled the wool in his hand and explained: "In the past 20 years, it has only snowed twice, once with light snow and once with heavy snow. But they were happy, as if it was not snow but pink banknotes falling from the sky. ”

"What about you? Are you as excited as they are?"

Jiang Xiaomian rolled up the ball of yarn and replied, "I don't welcome snow to Changnan, in that case, the kapok in Changnan will be frozen to death."

Sally saw Jiang Xiaomian knitting shoes, so she put down the clothes in her hand and came to her, happily holding the two woolen balls and playing on her face, very cute, "I didn't think you would play this kind of shoes?" I heard that your family runs a real estate company, but you don't look like the kind of Chinese princess raised in a greenhouse, and even less like the Chinese student in our class, who takes sick leave twice in three days, has a cold, high fever, faints, and looks so noble that you have to trouble your parents to send padded jackets to school this winter, and they have grown so big that the umbilical cord has not been broken. I haven't had a high fever since I had a high fever in sixth grade, so I'm so proud! ”

Sally was so clever that Jiang Xiaomian poked her head with a finger smile: "Don't be too proud, wait a minute, a high fever will come!" ”

"It's Christmas Eve today, so I don't believe in evil!" Sally pouted and counted the slippers woven in the cloth bag, and covered her mouth in surprise: "Did you knit a pair of shoes for everyone in my family?" ”

Jiang Xiaomian knows that "sending shoes" in China is not good, but it is another language in Western countries, so there is no need to avoid it, anyway, the size of the shoes is the best measure, unlike clothes to pay attention to bust and waist circumference.

Jiang Xiaomian nodded and said, "Yes, anyway, sometimes it's boring, I can give it to everyone together after I finish knitting, I hope you all like it." ”

Sally counted them and said, "Hey, there are ten people in my family, and it seems that there is one pair less." ”

Seeing that Sally didn't react, Jiang Xiaomian was silent and couldn't speak, she also wanted to weave the missing pair. I'm afraid it's useless.

The reason why there is one less pair is because Jiang Xiaomian did not count Chi Yanghe's share and wanted to knit another pair of socks for him.

Sally looked at Jiang Xiaomian's dumb expression, and immediately reacted to the reason, and directly suggested: "It's not right for you to think like that, you have to weave his shoes to have hope." It is also a wish or a blessing. ”

Jiang Xiaomian came to his senses and smiled: "It's really good for you to remind you, I'll add another pair."

"Who did you learn this weaving from, is it your mother?" Sally asked.

"My mom doesn't know this, I learned it myself, because I studied clothing in college, so I'm interested in learning these things, such as knitting scarves and knitting sweaters, and when it comes to winter, my roommates and I like to tinker with these things, and give them to important people."

Sally understood, nodded, and then pulled out her pair and walked around in place. She tread lightly in the room, and there was a rumbling of small footsteps outside.

When Jiang Xiaomian looked up at the door, the door had not been pushed open before the sound of cheers came in.

"Daddy has moved back with a big Christmas tree, auntie, little aunt, go and decorate the Christmas tree with them!"

The three little guys ran in with Santa hats, one pulled Sally, and the other two each pulled Jiang Xiaomian's left and right arms, giggling and enthusiastic. Before Jiang Xiaomian could say anything, he was pulled out of the room and into the living room.

Now those children have time to play, in the West, Christmas is a holiday, and London is from Christmas Eve to the fifth of next year, so Sally and the three children don't have to go to school. This is Jiang Xiaomian's first Christmas in a Western country, which is more grand and festive than China, after all, this is their culture, in Chinese Chinese, a Christmas in London, it is an authentic, authentic festival.

Although Jiang Xiaomian didn't have much interest.

When I used to study history, Jiang Xiaomian was still a little resistant to Christmas. Later, as I grew up, I gradually got rid of my narrow thinking, after all, I am advocating world peace now. If Jiang Xiaomian runs to tell the Chinese about "don't forget the national shame" when they celebrate Christmas, people will definitely say that she is different.

Jiang Xiaomian is not in a very good mood today, and it is not because of Christmas. Instead, everyone was happily celebrating the festival here, and Chi Yanghe could only listen to their laughter coldly. Jiang Xiaomian has a big gap in her heart, when she told Chi Yanghe a story before, she asked him, saying, "You must eat apples and turkeys with me this Christmas", damn it! He didn't do it!

Hmph, he broke his promise the same last time he celebrated Halloween! Jiang Xiaomian hated Chi Yanghe like this.

Westerners look forward to Christmas like Chinese anxious joy of the Spring Festival, looking at their happy expressions, singing Christmas songs together, those Santa Claus, Christmas trees, elk, stockings, apples...... all triggered those memories in Jiang Xiaomian's brain.

Jiang Xiaomian suddenly remembered the Christmas Eve that she spent with Xiang Dongyang.

In the next second, she lowered her head and closed her eyes to curse her brain, the past cannot be traced, that's what she said.

Sally wrote her wishes on the wish card and hung them on the Christmas tree, turned her head and asked, "Xiaomian, how do Chinese spend Christmas?"

"It's definitely not as grand as you, that is, eating an apple on Christmas Eve, and listening to the jingle bells the next day, and that's it, no different from usual. Naturally, it can't be compared to the excitement of the New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. Jiang Xiaomian simply laughed about his country's traditional festivals, of course, as a Chinese, he must speak for Chinese culture.

Sally took out two Christmas cards, one with the nativity and the other with the Star of Bethlehem, one with a picture of their extended family and the other with her boyfriend, and wrote some heartfelt words with a colorful pen.

In fact, I have heard Sally mention her boyfriend many times, but Jiang Xiaomian has never seen that boyfriend with her own eyes, and it seems that she will only live in Sally's mouth forever.

Jiang Xiaomian looked at the photo in Sally's hand and saw a sunny and handsome young man.

"Sally, why don't you bring your boyfriend with you?" Jiang Xiaomian couldn't help but be curious and took the initiative to ask about her boyfriend.

Sally, who has always been very happy and likes to laugh, suddenly turned solemn, Jiang Xiaomian instantly regretted her recklessness, and she didn't have to guess to know what was unpleasant.

But Sally didn't hide it, and said boldly: "My family and his family don't agree with us, we are secretly dating, secretly meeting, he doesn't come here often, I go to him more."

"Is he also from London, then?"

"No, he's Irish. In terms of blood, his family was a pure Irish nobleman, while my family was only a Chinese from my grandfather's generation, and his family had a strong standard of intermarriage, so his family did not approve of me, thinking that I was high and unworthy of their noble descendants. I didn't have a good conversation with her mother, who said that I was not quiet and elegant, and that I was far from her ideal aristocratic daughter-in-law. ”

It turned out that this was the reason, Sally was a little angry when she said the last sentence, Jiang Xiaomian could only sigh when she heard it, and she didn't know what to say, so Sally asked Xiaomian again: "Do you have this kind of concept over there?"

Jiang Xiaomian shook his head, "The feudal society will not be so strong in the future, our country pays attention to freedom and equality, and love is free." ”

"Which country doesn't say that, but in the end, it has to be measured by money status, and interests always come first."

"Perhaps." Jiang Xiaomian also admitted that Xian Xinchen and Wu Yuanhao are good examples.

After Sally finished finishing the card, she treasured it and said that she would send it to her boyfriend tomorrow, and then gave a new card to Jiang Xiaomian, "Don't you want to write a Christmas card for someone you like?" ”

Jiang Xiaomian thought to herself, who do I like?

At that moment, she didn't know how to define the problem.

"I don't really want to give it to anyone, so I'll just write a wish on it, and I don't expect Santa Claus to give me any rich gifts, just hope that this wish will come true."

The background of the greeting card that Sally gave to Jiang Xiaomian is not Jesus or the Star of Bethlehem, it is a very simple snowflake Christmas picture, and the simple literary background is very much in line with Jiang Xiaomian's preferences.

Jiang Xiaomian took the card, took a red highlighter and wrote a small line of words:

"I would like to face the sea and bloom in spring"

Sally saw it on the side, and she didn't read it softly like the reaction of the person next to her, she turned her big eyes to look at Jiang Xiaomian, "What does this mean, is it a wish?" ”

"yes, that's a big wish!"

Sally must have felt that Jiang Xiaomian was playing dumb riddles, and tilted her head in confusion. Jiang Xiaomian patted her and smiled: "This is a modern Chinese poem, you won't understand it!"

Jiang Xiaomian smiled slightly, Sally can not understand, but Chi Yanghe will definitely understand.

At night, Sally and her family went to play in Trafalgar Square in the center of the city, and heard that Sally said that there was a special Christmas tree to be lit up, so they asked Jiang Xiaomian to visit, but Jiang Xiaomian refused, because Chi Yanghe would be lonely if everyone was gone.

Therefore, this Christmas Eve, Jiang Xiaomian accompanied Chi Yanghe, Jiang Xiaomian dressed up a Christmas tree and put it in his room, hung a bell, wrapped it with colorful floats, and finally hung the wish card in the highest and most eye-catching place. When Jiang Xiaomian finished all this silently, Chi Yanghe still slept quietly and did not disturb her.

Jiang Xiaomian helped him massage, moved his fingers, and whispered: "Yanghe, I've been in London for a season, and the winter in London is really cold, colder than the snowy Changnan." I asked Lin Shen yesterday, and she said that this year's Changnan was very warm, there was no snow at all, and she sweated after jumping twice in a sweater. I was surprised by that. But it was exactly what I thought, because the kapok will bloom on time in the spring of the next year. Speaking of flowers, I just made a wish, do you know what it is? That's you wake up quickly. The poem I wrote on the wishing card was the poem you said to me when we had just met!' I would like to face the sea and bloom in spring'... I haven't forgotten it, and you must remember it better than I do, right? So the Christmas gift I want this year, whether I can fulfill my wish or not, it's up to you..."

Jiang Xiaomian was so sleepy that she was dozing while talking, and wanted to talk to Chi Yanghe for a while, but her eyes couldn't hold it anymore, so she told Chi He and said, "Yanghe, I'll hold your hand, you must wake me up tomorrow!" If you don't speak, I'll assume you know! ”

In fact, Jiang Xiaomian is like this every time he tells Chi Yanghe, he always doesn't wake up, but Jiang Xiaomian himself is sleepy. In the dream on Christmas Eve, Jiang Xiaomian dreamed that Santa Claus carried an elk and gave her Christmas gifts, and later when Jiang Xiaomian saw it clearly, Yang He, that Santa Claus is you! …

Jiang Xiaomian lay on the side of his bed for a night, and the next day, Chi Yanghe did not keep his promise, and Jiang Xiaomian still woke up first.

It's Christmas when you wake up.

Today Sally wore a very "thunderous" Christmas red and green ugly sweater. Haha, Jiang Xiaomian couldn't help but think of a famous saying that the clothing matching industry remembers when he sees it: "Red with green, dog fart".

Sally's ugly sweater is very funny in colorful colors, and all kinds of red grimaces seem to be copied from WeChat Minion expressions. Jiang Xiaomian thought that only Sally would wear it like that, but later saw that everyone was wearing funny and slightly ugly Christmas sweaters, except for Uncle Chi and Mrs. Wendy.

"Xiaomian, do my new Christmas clothes look good?"

But Jiang Xiaomian burst out laughing at the thought of "stuffing bullshit".

Sally was not angry, and gave Jiang Xiaomian a green sweater, the pattern was a headless Santa Claus, and the meaning of the clothing design was that Jiang Xiaomian would just match her head if she wore it.

"Sally, this headless one is too weird, let me go, I'd better wear my usual clothes."

"Ah, Xiaomian, no!" Sally smiled and put a sweater on Jiang Xiaomian's head, "Don't you people wear this kind of sweater like this for Christmas?" ”

"Very little, I haven't worn it, and neither have my friends around me. But one year one of my classmates dressed up as Santa Claus to give Christmas candy to everyone. ”

"Who?"

"I'm a roommate who plays cospaly."

…

When Jiang Xiaomian followed Sally to the Christmas market, she found that many people wore such "ugly sweaters" like this, which was fresh and interesting.

Sally shook the two elk tentacles on the ear tips and said to Jiang Xiaomian: "See, this is not nonsense, it is very comfortable to wear!" ”

The Christmas market that Sally took Jiang Xiaomian to was equivalent to a winter park, and when they first entered the park, there was a super-large Santa Claus in the center to greet them. Jiang Xiaomian looked around, there were many entertainment projects, ice skating, roller coasters, Christmas dramas... There are also all kinds of Christmas delicacies, white fruit tart, burning Christmas pudding, turkey... There are a lot of people around, and Jiang Xiaomian is in the scene, which has a kind of New Year's flavor of the Spring Festival market.

This lively feeling is actually very sad.

Sally pulled Jiang Xiaomian to the front of the crowd, clapped her palms silently with thick gloves and said to Jiang Xiaomian: "Look, Christmas crackers!" ”

When she said the word 'cannon', Sally's mouth let out a white breath, followed by a "boom".

"Huh?" Jiang Xiaomian saw the two people in front of him pulling one head at the huge "fruit candy", and when he didn't hear what Sally said, a very loud voice burst out all the gifts in the cracker, and the surprise gadgets spilled out, and the people around them went to "grab" those small gifts.

"Wow!" Jiang Xiaomian grinned when he saw all kinds of gifts popping out of it. Because Jiang Xiaomian was standing very close, she noticed something fluttering on her head, and when she reached out and saw that it was a small crown made of paper, and there were small sparkling fragments on it.

And what fell on Sally was a small string of colored bells, she picked it up and smiled at Jiang Xiaomian, the light jingle sound was very smart, Jiang Xiaomian thought that this gift was just right for Sally's smart appearance!

"Sally, this Christmas gift bag is such a surprise, I've never played with it before."

Sally laughed: "What a gift bag, this is called a Christmas salute, it can be traced back to the early 50s of the 19th century, invented by a confectioner Tom Smith, the gift in it can be a small ornament, ornaments, toys, snacks and some pieces of paper, on which are written jokes, riddles, God's blessings... Many, much more! She opened her arms and made a many, many gestures.

Then they went to eat a lot of Christmas food and walked around the playground. Sally had a lot of fun with them, and Jiang Xiaomian did a roller coaster and spit out the turkey and dessert she had just eaten, which made the scene very embarrassing for a while. In addition, I didn't sleep in bed properly last night, my head was a little dizzy, and Jiang Xiaomian collapsed from vomiting.

Sally saw Jiang Xiaomian's comfortable appearance after vomiting before she dared to laugh and said, "Xiaomian, you are too weak, a roller coaster will torture you like this." ”

"I'm sorry, I'm spoiling your interest, you guys play, I can go back by myself first." Jiang Xiaomian said this very sincerely, for fear that he would spoil his interest and affect their unhappiness.

The temperature outside has dropped to freezing, the sky is gray and there is no blue to be seen, except for the colorful joy around the earth, and the rest of the vitality is suppressed in the white snow.

Sally exhaled her hand, her little face was so cold that she even puffed out her snot, and when the wind blew, all the broken hair rushed over. She pulled Jiang Xiaomian and said, "We're almost having fun, the weather is cold, let's go back, there will be a big meal at home later!" ”

"Hey, isn't your boyfriend coming to London?" Jiang Xiaomian suddenly remembered this incident.

The joy on Sally's face seemed to have weakened a little, and she waved her hand to Jiang Xiaomian and said, "He won't come, let's go!" ”

"What's the matter, isn't it worth coming to such a festival?"

Sally shook her head, didn't say much, didn't want to mention her boyfriend's expression, turned around and casually looked at the crowd, then pulled Jiang Xiaomian to purse her lips and leave.

Jiang Xiaomian thought to herself that she was still spoiling people's interest, and it was clear that Sally was still having a lot of fun in the last second! She suddenly went back unhappy, and Jiang Xiaomian was even more embarrassed.

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