At eleven o'clock, the outside is becoming more and more lively, and since the past few years, Huaicheng has also introduced the New Year's Eve countdown outside, which is on the side of the famous square.

In front of the right side of that square is a huge bell tower, which is also modeled after Munich, Germany, the largest bell tower in Europe, but it is only modeled after its method of attracting tourists, in China, Huaicheng naturally wants to build a bell tower with Chinese characteristics, such as the clock tower in ancient times.

It took three years to build this bell tower, and a lot of historical experts and scholars who studied the ancient bell tower were invited, and the restoration was almost identical, but no one came, and only some people from the city came.

The bell tower experienced a long period of loneliness, and later when the bell tower experienced the Chinese New Year's Eve countdown for the first time, many young people who went home for the New Year took videos on the Internet, which attracted widespread attention in society.

Huaicheng restored a huge ancient bell tower, which became a hot topic on the Internet for a while, and tourism also developed, and this bell tower only rings thirty times on Chinese New Year's Eve, and only three on other days.

Now the bell tower in Huaicheng has become an Internet celebrity attraction, and many people come to Huaicheng every Chinese New Year's Eve to watch the countdown to the Lunar New Year.

When Fang Xiqiao and Yan Yue and their party arrived at the Famous Plaza, it was already half past eleven, and the square was already full of people.

Yan Meihui and Gao Yuankang couldn't stand the crowded place, so they went to find a place to drink tea and sit down and chat; Jiang Feng took his wife and children out for a walk, Jiang Feng felt that he had finally rested for a night, and it was time to communicate with his wife and children alone.

Hu Tian sat and looked right, and finally chose to drink tea with the elderly group, because Fang Xiqiao and Yan Yue had also disappeared into the crowd holding hands.

The two of them walked east and west in the huge square, and soon got tired from the crowd, which had been tripled in size because of the construction of the bell tower.

"I'm tired." Fang Xiqiao felt that the woman couldn't even keep up with her deliberately slowed down, so she simply stopped, "Let's find a place to sit." ”

Yan Yue nodded, panting slightly, in such a cold weather, her forehead was also covered with fine sweat, and her broken hair was also soaked with sweat and stuck to her skin: "I remember when I was a child, I came here and walked on Chinese New Year's Eve, and I was not so tired at that time, and I ran around the square more than a dozen times that day." ”

Fang Xiqiao stretched out his hand to comb Yan Yue's broken hair, and said with a smile: "How old were you then?" ”

"I'm only eight years old." Yan Yue didn't realize that something was wrong, so she answered directly, and when she looked up and saw Fang Xiqiao's smiling eyebrows, she immediately reacted, and went to hit Fang Xiqiao with a smile, "Are you saying that I'm old now, so I just took two steps and gasped?" ”

"How dare you?" Fang Xiqiao continued to lead Yan Yue to the front, and hurriedly denied with a smile, "If you are old, then I am not my husband?" ”

Yan Yue said with a grudge: "You are your husband, you are going to be thirty-two, and you are embarrassed to say that I am in my twenties." ”

"What's in your twenties?" Fang Xiqiao raised his eyebrows slightly, and brought Yan Yue to the bench that had just been vacated on the edge of the square, "Can you be honest, twenty-one years old is also in your twenties." ”

"Yes, twenty-eight is also in the range of twenty-something." Yan Yue looked at Fang Xiqiao sincerely.

Fang Xiqiao smiled dumbly, but he didn't refute again, with such sincere eyes, how embarrassed was he to refute.

"Why are your sleeves wet?" When Yan Yue turned around and sat down, she subconsciously stretched out her hand to support the hand that the man was holding onto her, but she felt the cold on her coat.

"I guess I was bumped into when I just walked over." Fang Xiqiao sat down and raised his hand to look, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

Yan Yue was in a hurry, Fang Xiqiao only wore a shirt and vest inside, although the coat outside was very thick, but if it was wet, it might catch a cold, she quickly took out the small packet of paper she carried with her from her pocket, grabbed Fang Xiqiao's hand again, took out a piece of paper and put it in the middle of the two clothes, let the paper towel absorb the moisture on the clothes inside, and when the time was almost up, she took out the paper towel inside, and pulled out a new piece of dry paper and put it in.

"It's okay, it's just that the sleeves are wet." Fang Xiqiao watched all of Yan Yue's movements intently, although he said that it was fine, but his sleeves were wet, and he did feel a lot colder, but these movements of the woman put a warm baby in his heart.

"On such a day, it's easy to catch a cold if you get a little wet." Yan Yue raised her head, looked at the man who was saying that it was okay with some complaining eyes, and then lowered her head again, she was about to open her mouth to say something, but as soon as the first word came out with a syllable, she swallowed all the words back into her stomach and dealt with it quietly.

Fang Xiqiao, who went to look down at his watch just now, felt Yan Yue's silence, and turned his head to look to the side in confusion, but only saw a hairy head, he bit his cheek, just now this woman obviously wanted to speak.

What do you want to say, why don't you say it all of a sudden?

"Did you just mean to say something?" He can only ask directly, and in this case it is most effective to ask directly, or only between the two of them.

It seems that other lovers will make the situation worse if they ask this.

But they won't, Yan Yue raised her head and directly reached out and pulled up some of his sleeves: "I wanted to say it, but when I saw this, I suddenly lost my speech." ”

Fang Xiqiao looked down and saw that it was the tattoo on his wrist, a very small one, with only one date, it was "2003.11.13/Loss/Gain", according to this date, it was the day when he was in the first semester of his third year of high school, and it was also when Hu Tian's kid said that he and Lu Ai were in early love, and this tattoo seemed to verify Hu Tian's words.

What is loss? What is it?

This day may be the day when he and Lu Ai are together, or it may be the day when they are separated, Yan Yue thought so when she just bowed her head and was silent.

But in front of the balcony, Fang Xiqiao had already explained to her again, just classmates, but what about this tattoo, her reason kept her from thinking wildly, but her sensibility made her brain run rapidly, and bred those terrible emotions.

"Then why don't you just explain it to me?" Fang Xiqiao reached out and scraped the tip of Yan Yue's nose.

Yan Yue subconsciously dodged, but was still scratched: "Because you explained it to me before, if I take this tattoo to explain to you now, you should think that I am making trouble, or that I don't trust you." ”

"Why do you feel that?"

"Aren't many boys going to think like this, if their wives or girlfriends ask one more word, they will feel very annoyed, they will feel that the girl is making trouble unreasonably, they are not trusting him, and the two of them will quarrel again, and then cracks will begin to appear in this relationship."

"But I don't think so, it's me who made you worry about it, so I'm obliged to explain it to you, so that you don't have to worry, and what I explained to you on the balcony is only about Lu Ai being my first love." Fang Xiqiao reached out and touched the location of the tattoo, "I haven't explained this tattoo to you yet." ”

Although Fang Xiqiao didn't explain anything, the emotions in Yan Yue's heart quietly dissipated, maybe she didn't need any explanation at this time: "The sentence you said earlier has reassured me." ”

"This tattoo looks very meaningful, I don't want to explain it now, I'm afraid you will bother me with this in the future."

Fang Xiqiao laughed, stretched out his hand to hug Yan Yue, and began to speak: "In the first few years when I was adopted, because I left a big shadow on my biological mother in my heart, I think my biological mother is still like this, and the adoptive parents may just rise, and they will soon return me to the orphanage, I am afraid of getting hurt again, so I have never been close to them, and after a year or two, they are not only not angry, but they are getting better and better to me." ”

"I felt sorry for their kindness, and I began to want them to send me back to the orphanage, so I was left to fend for myself in the orphanage, so I began to become a market, deliberately skipping classes, fighting, smoking, and doing all the bad student things, the most serious one was that the school wanted to punish me, and the people around me began to persuade my adoptive parents to give up on me, send me back to the orphanage, and then go to adopt an obedient child."

Fang Xiqiao sighed, and continued: "I thought that my goal was finally achieved, but I didn't expect that my father, who was also my adoptive father, found the school to kneel with a teaching director who was a few years younger than him in order to prevent me from leaving a stain on my file, and almost knelt down, but fortunately I arrived in time. ”

"So, this tattoo..."Yan Yue gently stroked Fang Xiqiao's wrist, that special date.

"It was November 13, 2003." Fang Xiqiao's eyes softened, Yan Yue's soft fingers gently caressed his soft place, making his heart soften, and the pain and guilt of the year gradually quieted down, "That time I hugged my adoptive father and cried for a long time, and I suddenly understood that I could no longer live up to their kindness to me and their refusal to give up on me, so I began to study hard, and at the age of seventeen, I was admitted to the first law university in the country." ”

"That's amazing." Yan Yue said these three words from the heart, she was afraid that Fang Xiqiao would think that she was perfunctory, and she looked up at each other, she touched the back two words again, she probably understood the meaning of these two words, "What did Mr. Fang lose and gain that day?" ”

Fang Xiqiao narrowed his eyes, hooked the corners of his mouth, and kissed the woman's forehead: "I lost the one I used to be afraid of family affection; lost the family I once cherished; But I got the happiest family and the best version of myself. ”

"Loss, gain." Yan Yue narrowed her eyes and showed a warm smile, "Mr. Fang is also so literary. ”

Fang Xiqiao smiled and didn't speak, if he let the woman in his arms see his bastard appearance, he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to say such a thing, he was also fortunate that Yan Yue couldn't see it, and fortunately that year, in 2003, he woke up and no longer used such a stupid way to hurt people who really loved him.

The best way to respond to someone who loves you is to be better for them, and then love them well.

When Hu Tian called, it was already close to twelve o'clock, and they immediately got up and walked to Hu Tian's side, Huaicheng has always had an unwritten custom, from Chinese New Year's Eve to the moment on the first day of the new year, the whole family must be together, so that in the second year can be complete.

In the dense crowd, a man and a woman held hands and shuttled among them, but when they were about to walk to Hu Tian, suddenly there were loud shouts and cheers around them, Huaicheng in the middle of the night, was illuminated by countless fireworks in the sky one after another, and the sound of the bell tower in the ears was the sound of the bell tower, the sound of the bell, the sound of the impact by people, the bell that hung in the bell tower, completely hit by artificial, will only ring today.

The New Year has arrived, the New Year has begun, and the Spring Festival has arrived.

The man and woman in a hurry also stopped, and at the same time looked up at the fireworks in the sky.

"It's beautiful." This was said by Fang Xiqiao, who thought that the people who watched the fireworks were also beautiful.

In the past, he would never come out and waste time watching these things, he felt that it was a waste of time and useless things, it was better to watch the fireworks display directly on TV, replay it as many times as he wanted, and watch it at any time, but now he knows where the beauty of fireworks is.

He turned his head to look at Yan Yue, who was still immersed in the beauty of the fireworks, the corners of his mouth curled, and he quietly changed his hand to ten fingers.

There are some scenery that still need someone to watch together, whether it is the drizzle of spring, or the mud of summer lotus, or the wind of autumn, you need someone to share together, from green silk to white hair.

"Mr. Fang, let's take a group photo together." Yan Yue came back to her senses and immediately went to her pocket to take out her mobile phone, but she finally took it out but because Fang Xiqiao was too tall, she never took a good shot.

"I'll do it." Fang Xiqiao stretched out the hand in his pocket and took the mobile phone that Yan Yue was holding and was constantly looking for angles, his height and long arms easily took the two of them into the camera, and even the bell tower behind him and the fireworks in the sky were left in the camera.

On the other side, only a few meters away, Yan Meihui and Jiang Feng's family of three, Gao Yuankang and Hu Tian all gathered together to watch the fireworks in the sky, with smiles on their faces, and greeted each other with "Happy New Year".

"Where did the two of them go?" Jiang Fengdong looked around, his policeman's occupational disease was that he was afraid of what harm would happen to his relatives.

Yan Meihui also looked around a few times, licked her lips, and said with a smile: "The two of them are tired, they may think that we are light bulbs, and the two of them will be a family in the future, and they can spend time together to be happy." ”

But soon after, it turned out that the unwritten custom of Huaicheng still has some truth, from Chinese New Year's Eve to the Spring Festival, the family will not be happy if they do not spend time together.

Jiang Feng originally wanted to express his worries, but in the end he chose to remain silent.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the crowd to disperse, and they saw Yan Yue and Fang Xiqiao in the distance, and after the group got together, they began to walk home.

Yan Yue, who was walking in the middle together, was suddenly pulled by Fang Xiqiao, and gave her a look to walk slowly, she frowned slightly, but she still slowed down and walked at the end of the line with Fang Xiqiao.

"What's wrong?" Yan Yue saw that the person in front of her had already walked some distance before she raised her head and asked.

Fang Xiqiao saw Yan Yue's inquisitive eyes, couldn't help but bow his head and kiss him, and said "Happy New Year, my lover".

Yan Yue bent her eyebrows happily, and the corners of her mouth also had an arc.

"Happy New Year, my Mr. Fang."