"Whew! ……”

"Smack...... Syllable...... Smack......"

Colorful fireworks outside the window bloomed in the inky sky, Ji Xiaofan surrounded the warm blue cashmere shawl, leaning in front of the glass window of the kitchen balcony, looking up at the bright fireworks in the sky, silently counting the numbers in his heart.

“10、9、8、7……”

At the same time, in the TV set turned on in the living room, on the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, the host was also counting down the same number, when the number returned to zero, the New Year's bell came from the TV, and the fireworks outside the window were more dense, mixed with the "crackling" sound of firecrackers.

Ji Xiaofan's eyes were withdrawn from the lively sky, and he looked down at the building, where the lights were bright, and he could see that some families were reunited in the living room, sitting around and pushing cups and changing lamps to celebrate the arrival of the new year.

There are still busy cooking dumplings in the kitchen......

Seeing the lively reunion and busy figure of other people's homes, Ji Xiaofan retracted his gaze, lowered his head and turned back to his stove, a pot of boiling water on the stove had already been "gurgling, gurgling", and the water vapor pasted a layer of light mist on the glass next to him.

Ji Xiaofan looked at his humble kitchen with a pair of tired eyes, walked to the console numbly, picked up the quick-frozen dumplings that had been opened, walked back to the stove, and poured a bag of quick-frozen dumplings into the pot of boiling water. Slowly, use a large spoon to slide the dumplings in the pot clockwise.

But her attention was not on the pot, but instead of reaching out distractedly, she reached out and drew "Happy New Year!" on the mist-filled glass window on the side. A few words.

The sound of firecrackers outside the house gradually quieted down, and the firecrackers at zero o'clock were put off, and the people who set off the firecrackers went home to eat dumplings, right?

Coming out of the kitchen with a plate of cooked frozen dumplings. The lights in the living room and dining room were all turned on at their brightest, and the TV was still playing, loud enough that the room seemed even more empty.

Ji Xiaofan sat alone on the table with dumplings in a mess, facing the direction of the TV, eating quick-frozen dumplings while watching the rest of the Spring Festival Gala.

People say that basically no one watches the programs after 0:00 o'clock of the Spring Festival Gala, but Ji Xiaofan feels that the programs in this time period are still very necessary, and the Spring Festival Gala takes care of people like her very humanely.

A lonely person like her, who has no family and no friends around her, can still watch the show after the lively firecrackers at zero o'clock, and at least she will not feel lonely in her heart.

Symbolically ate two dumplings, Ji Xiaofan had no desire to eat anymore, put the chopsticks on the table, stood up and returned to the living room to turn off the TV, this year's Spring Festival Gala is just like this, although it is not good-looking, but it accompanied her through another cold Chinese New Year's Eve, she is ready to wash and sleep.

Before Ji Xiaofan entered the bedroom, he turned around and glanced at the living room and kitchen that were still on, and the hand on the light switch in the living room hesitated, and finally decided not to turn off the lights, on Chinese New Year's Eve, be sure to turn on the lights to keep watch.

This is her habit when she was a child, I remember that when she was young, her father would always accompany her to keep the New Year, but now she lives alone, but this habit is stubbornly retained.

Carefully removing the makeup on her face, she took a New Year's "first" bath seriously, which means "removing the old and welcoming the new".

"Happy New Year, I hope the new year, all the best, safe and ......"

Ji Xiaofan scribbled on the mist on the bathroom mirror with her hand, muttering in her mouth, she was used to talking to herself like this.

After living alone for a long time, this kind of self-talk has become a habit for her, and in a hundred square meters of house, she lives a lonely person, not even a pet, empty.

After blowing dry his hair, putting on a sapphire blue men's plus-size pullover sweater, and putting on a pair of light gray cotton sports pants, Ji Xiaofan skillfully smeared various skin care products layer by layer on his face in front of the mirror.

"Hey, it's another year, you have to be kind to yourself, otherwise you won't be able to see this face!"

She was busy applying water, eye cream, serum, and cream to her face while sighing softly at herself in the mirror.

Indeed, the years are fleeting, and she is going to be thirty years old in a blink of an eye, but she has not married herself yet, how can she grow old so quickly? This is the last thing she wants to face, and it is indeed an inescapable fact.

Finally finished serving his delicate face, Ji Xiaofan got some hand cream and applied it to his hands, and while smearing his hands, he looked left and right in the mirror.

"It's okay, you can go out without makeup."

Finally, judging her face in the mirror with satisfaction, she turned and went back to the bedroom.

Before going to bed, I casually glanced at the clock on the wall, it was already one o'clock in the morning, and the sound of firecrackers outside was basically over.

"Well, it's quiet, go to sleep, open your eyes, it's another good day, good night!"

In order to sleep, she did not hesitate to turn off the headlight in the bedroom, leaving only a bedside night light, and then neatly got into bed and got into the big cold quilt.

"Oops...... It's so cold! ”

She is not used to using an electric mattress, she thinks that it is like putting people on a barbecue machine, and in the middle of the night she will feel that she wants to lose the moisture of the barbecue, but in the northern winter, the heating in the house is on, and the quilt is cold.

Since it was still cold in the quilt, she needed her body to warm it, and she couldn't sleep for the time being, so she simply picked up the mobile phone that had been charging on the bedside table.

Because no one called her on this day, she turned her mobile phone to silent early, because there were many short messages, and she was afraid that the mobile phone would run out of battery, so she kept it here to charge.

Thumb lightly pressed on the switch of the fingerprint lock, the screen lit up all of a sudden, on the information prompt of WeChat, a red 99+ shocking is particularly eye-catching, I didn't look at it this night, and the greeting message has exploded.

In order to pass the time, Ji Xiaofan clicked on the red dots one by one, most of which were New Year's greeting text messages.

It's basically those common extra-long paragraphs, but the beginning of the sender or greeting is changed by one, and then sent it in groups.

So Ji Xiaofan just mechanically opened it one by one, and didn't look at the content in detail, and operated repeatedly for ten minutes, and finally a special message stood out among the many group messages.

[I miss you!] 】

What are you doing? Who did you eat with for Chinese New Year's Eve? 】

[Busy?] Why don't you reply to my messages? What are you doing? 】

[Hey, what are we doing?] 】

The last message was sent a few minutes ago, and Ji Xiaofan touched the button with his finger due to a pause.

【Prepare for bed......】

A simple four words, plus a string of ellipses, and then clicking send, means that she doesn't want to continue chatting with the sender at this time.

After processing the information, she re-locked the screen and prepared to put the phone back on the bedside table, and before the hand holding the phone could put the phone down, the phone vibrated and the screen lit up.