Yanhua Country, Loulan, Gardenia Street.

January 21.

Stepping on the trestle bridge where the snow melts, the road is full of people, the streets are bright and quiet, and the lakes are hazy.

The silver-white girl with long white hair held her belly, limped to a flowering branch at the end of the bridge, and sniffed it with a vegetable face.

"Ah...... Is this flower edible...... I can't take it anymore. ”

Chewing and feeling alive, she suddenly smelled the smell of a fragrant steamer again.

“！”

Yes......

Is it a bun, is it a steamed bun...... Why is it so fragrant!

The girl's eyes sparkled, and she pressed the scabbard more vigorously than the demon god, and passed a distance of dozens of meters in the blink of an eye.

Then he fell five paces away.

"Ah...... I don't have the strength to ......."

She held out her fingers tremblingly and began to wonder why she was so close and yet so far away.

The steamer is obviously close in front of you......

"Hah, little girl, what are you doing lying on the ground on such a cold day?" The owner of the store saw a hand stretched out in the air and poked out to look at it, but a little girl sat on the ground like this, "The snow hasn't melted yet." ”

"Inside is ...... What ......" The white-haired girl looked at the steamer intently, as if she could die if she knew that.

"Rice cakes, do you want to try them," the boss asked with a cloth wiping his hands, "We have been selling rice cakes for twenty years." ”

The girl's posture was fixed there.

"But...... I don't have any money. ”

The only thing worth it on my body is this knife, if I exchange it for food, Ayi will definitely scold me to death if she knows it......

"Hey, this is the New Year's Day, and the ones that can't be sold out are not eaten by themselves, come, give."

The boss wrapped three rice cakes and handed them to her, and the girl leaned under the counter like a squirrel gnawing on pine nuts, and buried her head in nibbling on it.

At this time, you can't gobble...... Belch......

Seeing that she was hungry, the boss handed out another packaged ceramic bottle.

"Come on, this is my home-brewed rice wine, don't dislike it if the taste is not strong."

"Gurgling...... Ha ——! ”

The white-haired girl felt like she had come to life.

It's also unusual to meet this today, the boss laughed and crossed his waist, looked at her and said, "How does it taste?" ”

"Yum!!"

"Do you still want to eat?"

"I want to ......!"

"Hahaha," the boss handed her a few more pieces, "just rush at you for this delicious sentence, eat slowly, no one will rob you today." ”

Packets of rice cakes were handed out, and the girl just squatted under the counter, nibbling on the fine in a row.

The boss looked at it and shook his head: "It's not on our street, what's your name, obviously you don't dress shably, why is a person hungry like this during the New Year?" ”

The white-haired girl wiped the corners of her mouth.

"My name is Anaining, I was originally in Baigang Town, the Kingdom of the Western Lion Garden, and after being affected by the law power of the second-level demon god, I flew over from the west with a whoosh."

Boss: "......"

I'm afraid this is not a stupid baby.

"Where is your hometown?"

"Baiming Mountain."

"Yanyun...... That's far away, do you have relatives and friends in Loulan? ”

Ana Ning shook her head.

The boss paused.

"Doesn't that mean that where are you going to take refuge today, ready to spend Chinese New Year's Eve alone?"

Anaeno: "......"

Ayi must have broken my mouth now, and said that she would go to her to solve the matter in White Harbor Town...... Ahh Luo Wei, ah, ah, you reminded me to bring dry food, why didn't you remind me to bring money!!

I walked here from Penglai without a single board......

"Actually, I'm ready to close the stall." The boss shook his head helplessly, originally thinking that there would be no business for the New Year, but half of the stupid baby appeared, "If you don't have a place to celebrate the New Year, you can go to my house to make do with it, my daughter is almost as old as you." ”

"Huh? You should have a lot of family, right, won't I see the outside world when I go? ”

"No, no," the boss took off his apron and said with a smile, "There must be a lot of people, then there is a New Year's taste, I still have a daughter who has not come back, just you and my second daughter are companions, lest she always urge me to call my sister back." ”

Hearing the words to let her sister come back, Anai froze there.

"What's the matter, why are you crying? Remembering a loved one? ”

"Hmm." Ana wiped her face and nodded emphatically.

"Don't cry, don't cry, it's not just this New Year, it's just next year, let's go, can you walk?"

Anenon stood up.

"I'm here to help with the stall too!"

The boss didn't refuse, but when he saw Anainen dragging a large bucket with one hand, his jaw almost dropped.

That's what it is......

Does the stupid baby have a lot of strength?

……

No crown city, East Craftsman Street, Jiyun Inn.

January 21.

Ayining pushed open the door and saw the neighbor who lived next door hanging a lantern.

"Ayining, it's almost night, are you still going out at this time?"

"Yes, go for a walk."

Just as he was about to turn around, he saw two children coming out of the neighbor's house, circling around the neighbor's aunt.

"Sister, sister! I'm going to hang lanterns too~"

"Don't make a noise to Auntie, can't you be obedient, be careful that Auntie falls off the chair because of your noise."

"No, sister, I want to play with lanterns......"

"Don't make any noise, just make one for you, come in."

"Hey...... Sister is so nice~"

"Hmph, who made you my sister."

After watching the two children enter and close the door, Ayining came back to her senses and showed a bitter smile.

It doesn't look like it at all.

Walking down the stairs, the innkeeper was getting wine in the front garden, and said with a happy face: "You still go out at this time, have you eaten?" ”

"Eat."

Nodding lightly, he glanced back before going out, the inner hall was steaming with hot food, and the family sat happily together.

“……”

Pushing open the door of the inn, the wind blowing at night made the back of the man's hand and face ache, Ayining stopped for two seconds, and then closed the door for the inn.

Let's go to the shore of the green lake.

I guess there's a lantern hanging there.

Walking out of the courtyard of the inn, she was turning east when a servant dressed in the East stopped her.

"Excuse me, is it Miss Ayining?"

Slightly puzzled, she stared and said, "I am, ...... you?" ”

The servant nodded respectfully, "Then please get on the palanquin, your relatives are waiting for you to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner." ”

“！”

What!

Ayining stared at the spot in horror, sister, her?

No, no matter how you think about it, it is impossible for my sister to appear in the Crownless City, is this a conspiracy to harm her?

"Do you know my sister's name?"

The servant looked up, "Miss Anaein...... Isn't it? ”

"Where is she now?"

"It's on East Street, and we'll send you there."

Ayining glanced sideways, "The sedan chair is too slow, I can't wait that long." ”

If my sister is really in the city without crowns, then she has to see it as soon as possible no matter what, no...... In that case, could it be that Luo Wei is lying to himself? Or maybe my sister wasn't that far away from exile at all?

With so many thoughts in mind, the servant bowed his head in panic.

"This ...... Don't embarrass us, when you pay, you said that you must use a sedan chair to carry it, otherwise you won't be paid. ”

Ayining suddenly glanced at the sedan chair, "Why?" ”

"It is said that there is a sense of ritual ......

“？”

Ayi Ning frowned, and confirmed it inside and out, it was an ordinary sedan chair.

Even if you want to harm me in this way, you're too ignorant, I don't know if I'm the best at internal qi and know exactly what I'm moving around me.

Just right.

On such a boring day, it doesn't hurt to kill some senseless people.

Without saying anything, she picked up the hem of her skirt, turned her back into the sedan chair, and sat quietly.

"From ~ sedan ~~"

……

In the hot earthen stove room, the smoke of the food was warm, and more than 20 people gathered around a large round table that was a little greasy, eating and drinking with laughter.

"Hahahaha!" Anening smiled so hard that tears welled up in her eyes, "Your family is too interesting, isn't it, did grandma really know grandpa washing vegetables?" ”

Grandpa just smiled gently, squinting and clipped her a braised lion's head.

"Grandpa is shy," grandma smiled as she held the dishes and chopsticks, "I just laughed at him at the beginning, and he had to prove to me that he had a man's side......

"Huh? Grandpa, who is usually so gentle, still has such a side, I haven't seen him get angry since I was a child. ”

"When I was a child, I still remember that when the bully on the neighboring street came over, it was my father who stopped my mother."

"It's all in the past, it......'s over," Grandpa said a little shyly, "Everyone eats more meat, and our family is getting more and more hopeful this year." ”

"That's good," Ananet said, eating half of the lion's head, "that's how it feels to have so many family members." ”

The boss's second daughter hugged her arm, "Okay, okay, since you're here for dinner today, you're also our family, quick, tell me what happened to that demon god in the end......"

Ana Ning cheered up.

"Speaking of this, I'm not sleepy, at that time I swooped, he swooped, and then he flew into the sky to trigger the thunderstorm, so I gathered momentum with a horizontal sword, and a move "Pulling the Moon and Ascension to the Sky Chop", at that time it was called a crackling ......"

The family couldn't help but laugh as they held on to the dishes and chopsticks.

Why did she go back to this topic?

……

"Sedan~fall~~"

Ayining lifted the curtain and glanced out, Yufengxuan?

How could my sister have the money to set up a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in such a place?

She got out of the sedan chair neatly, turned around and watched out again, no one sneaked attack, and the sedan chair drivers also packed up the sedan chair and left.

Standing alone, Ayining looked up at the brightly lit pavilion, and her eyes lit up slightly.

Could it be that sister she ...... It's true?

With uncertainty and doubt, I walked up the steps to the warm spot of the lamp, and pushed open the door like a child unpacking a gift box.

(Booming...... ）

The lively noise was staggered, and the scene inside made her stunned.

The entire hall was full of banquets, all of whom sat there were unknown people, not only humans, elves and dwarves, but also demons and succubi, and even dragons, the light camp and the dark camp even sat at the same table, competing for wine, and grabbing each other's hot dishes and meals on the table.

This lively and prosperous scene made her stand there like a lost child.

Am I going wrong? Or is there someone in the inn called Ayining? But the surname Ning is obviously very rare in the East.

No, how do you explain that the palanquin husband knows that her sister is Anaeno?

But this ......

Ayi Ning really didn't know how she was going to fit into this atmosphere, and she looked left and right in a daze, hoping to find that familiar figure from it.

"Ayining!"

Suddenly, someone called her.

Raising her eyes, Vimir, with long dark blond hair, was sitting there, wearing a gold-patterned oriental brocade dress, waving at her on the main attic on the second floor.

"Here and here~"

Ayining was slightly stunned.

Looking at it again, could it be that this large group of people was arranged by them?

She paused before remembering the first thing the servant had said after confirming her identity.

Close relatives?

She should have only one relative in this world, her sister, but if it weren't for her sister......

"Poof......

She burst out laughing.

This guy is really bold.

As if all the doubts and confusions in her heart had turned into fun and joy at this moment, she suddenly found her place in this environment, and without hesitation, she stepped up the steps to the second floor.

In front of the round table covered with a big red tablecloth, although some of the people at this table could not be named, all of them were known to her.

Vimere, Saye, Klossie, all the orc employees in the workshop, the yellow-haired craftsman at the promotion banquet that day, the blonde adventurer and all his teammates, Lewis, and a few of the Shadow cadres.

Of course.

The guy who called himself her brother-in-law was also indispensable.

"You're not saying you don't have time." She looked at Rowe with a reproachful smile in her eyes.

"That's right," Luo Wei responded with a smile in a dark oriental brocade suit, "I'm busy preparing so many things, of course I don't have time, so I can only call you to dinner at the end." ”

Sophism.

She gave him a disgusting look.

"Sit down, everyone is waiting for you." Kloss smiled and patted the vacated spot.

Sitting down, her eyes lit up slightly, and she saw that the steaming meals were served by the staff of the restaurant one after another.

The most numerous of them are undoubtedly dumplings.

Ayining laughed amusedly: "Why is it so ugly?" ”

The plates of dumplings, some big and some small, some with more fillings and some less fillings, and even many of them were broken, and the soup flowed out.

Luo Wei spread his hands helplessly.

"You have to consider that the dwarve's hands are big, the demons don't have much patience, and the succubi always want to stuff it full of ......"

Ayi Ning was shocked when she heard this, and glanced towards the banquet hall under the railing.

He actually let the dwarves make dumplings??

And, succubus??

"Your meal, shouldn't it be ......?"

"That's right," Vimere answered the question for him, "It's made by everyone in this restaurant working together~"

Ayining lowered her head and couldn't help laughing.

Let all kinds of races unite to compete in making dumplings, I'm afraid he is the only one in the world who can do it.

It's just that...... The reason?

Although it feels ridiculous.

But whatever?

She smiled so happily that her eyes were crooked into crescent moons, and for the first time she felt a sense of belonging in this foreign land.

Perhaps, my sister is really good with him, and even I am moved by this happiness.

"Come, come, eat fish." Seeing the fish being served, Luo Wei unceremoniously picked it up with chopsticks.

His skillful movements suddenly made the people around him look at the tools in their hands for a while.

Ayining unceremoniously hit his chopsticks with his chopsticks.

"Lady First doesn't know?"

She first gave Klossie a piece of fish, and then took a piece for each of the other women.

Joey looked at the sticks of the same length for a long time, but he couldn't figure out how they were clamped.

And the dwarves below couldn't stand it for a long time.

"Hahaha~Hahaha~"

Looking at this ridiculous scene, Ayining couldn't remember how long it had been since she had laughed so happily.

But she's now.

Really happy.

……

The lively hustle and bustle continued until late.

With the warmth of his heart in his arms, Ayining/Anening got up and walked out of the door.

When they came to the bridge, the lanterns were already hung, and the two looked up at the east/west, as if they were tied across the long river.

Are you doing well, sister/sister?

I'm here and I'm having a great time today.

No matter where you are, as long as you have a bond in your heart, one day, we will be reunited.

……

Where do the old people go, the bridge is on the side.

should say goodbye to the old years, and the shadow list is difficult to rest.

but

The years are as new, and there are also today.

Live up to the spring and autumn, and we will have to meet.

Wishing for him to be the day -

Isn't it a beautiful day?

This chapter is free, I wish you all a happy new year~

This article is written for those who can't reunite with their loved ones today, and I hope we will see you again in the coming year!

PS: There are three pictures, waiting for review

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