the sun rises because of loving you

The snow outside had been pattering for nearly a day, and finally stopped. The sun emerged from the clouds, adding a touch of warmth to the severe winter.

Shang Lin and Bai Xihe walked side by side in the snow, and the soles of their shoes would make a creaking sound when they stepped on the soft snow. This sound was especially noticeable when they were not talking.

"When I first met you, it was still summer." Shang Lin let out a breath, and a stream of white mist came out of his mouth. He thought it was fun, opened his mouth into an "O" shape, and let out a breath like It's like smoke rings.

Bai Xihe gave him a funny look: "What are you doing?"

Shang Lin was a little embarrassed, lowered his head and smiled: "It's nothing, can we have hot pot today?"

"Okay, I have no problem."

The supermarket was not far away, and they arrived just after talking and laughing. They were mainly shopping for vegetables, so the two of them didn't go anywhere else. They went straight to the vegetable section. Bai Xihe pushed a shopping cart and walked half a step after Shang Linchai. I just picked and picked in the basket, bought potatoes, yuba, enoki mushrooms, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, meat such as fat beef, bacon, shrimp, etc. I basically bought everything that could go in without being too weird Some, many samples, but not much quantity.

"Is there anything else you need to eat?" Shang Lin looked at the food in the car and thought it was almost enough, just buy some Maodu beef balls and the like.

Bai Xihe raised his eyebrows: "Just wait until you ask me, luncheon meat is something I can't do without."

Shang Lin smiled: "Merlin's? It's really delicious, then let's go get two cans, by the way, do you still have Dudu's cat food? If not, buy it back together."

"It's enough to eat for two weeks. Forget it, I'd better buy some. It's too cold and I don't want to go out all the time."

The two took luncheon meat and beef and mutton rolls, and went to the pet area to unload three bags of cat food and a small box of canned food for Dudu.

While waiting to pay the bill, Shang Lin roughly looked around: "Fortunately, there are two of us today, otherwise we won't be able to take it back."

Bai Xihe took out his own gloves from his pocket, and handed one to Shang Lin: "Put it on, or you'll lose consciousness again when you carry the things back."

It was almost twelve o'clock when we got back to the store. Fortunately, there was nothing special to prepare for the hot pot. Bai Xihe also knew how to chop vegetables. He helped Shang Lin in the kitchen, and quickly washed, cut and packed all the vegetables. Plate and serve.

"Let's eat in that cubicle, otherwise it won't look good for us to eat around a table when guests come later," Shang Lin said.

"Okay, I'll turn on the exhaust fan inside after eating." Bai Xihe said.

Because the cubicle is quite small, it's easy to suffocate the smell, so Bai Xihe installed a smaller exhaust fan in both rooms, and turned it on for a while after the guests left to get rid of the smell.

Shang Lin put the pot in the middle of the table, and Shang Zhu, Hu Qing and Bai Xihe made several trips to bring all the dishes.

"What do you want to drink? I'm going to squeeze the juice." Hu Qing asked.

"Peach juice." Shang Zhu raised his hand.

"I'm fine." Bai Xihe didn't care.

"Grapefruit, thank you." Shang Lin smiled.

Shang Zhu thought that Hu Qing couldn't finish it by himself, so he ran to help. When the two of them came back, the pot was just opened, and they could put something in it. Winter and hot pot are perfect match, even if they eat hot pot all over It doesn't matter, I'm in a great mood.

Hu Qing left on December 30th. Her boyfriend came here to pick her up. She had a meal with Shang Lin and Bai Xihe at noon. When she left, she was reluctant to leave, her eyes were a little red up.

On New Year's Eve, Shang Zhu didn't plan to come to Shang Lin anymore, and went out with his roommates to watch movies and karaoke songs. Shang Lin was also happy alone, so he accepted Bai Xihe's invitation and went to Li Yuting's house for dinner.

Shang Lin rarely made cakes, and Bai Xihe waited until the cakes were sold out before closing the door. After four o'clock in the afternoon, he fed the cats food and water, closed the door and left with Shang Lin.

Qi Luyang and Li Yuting had already bought all the vegetables back, Bai Xihe didn't take anything, and Shang Lin only took a box of snowflake crisps made by Bai Xihe in the afternoon for dessert.

"I see that wechat merchants are doing activities recently, and I plan to buy some more things at their home." Bai Xihe said.

Shang Lin was surprised: "Have you run out? What do you want to buy?"

Bai Xihe smiled: "The toiletries I bought last time, this time I bought something to eat. I saw that he had a liquid roll-on nutrition cream. I bought the solid one before. The professor and Chisu didn't taste good, my little one. The store doesn’t eat it at all, and plans to change it, maybe it will be better, and there are catnip and so on, so there are not too many things to buy this time.”

"You are really meticulous in raising cats. I don't know what nutritional cream is, and I don't see you feeding it every day."

"Nutritional cream is not fed every day. It is even more unsuitable to feed obese cats. It is just a condiment and cannot be eaten as a staple food. I also feed them three times in two weeks, and only a little at a time."

"Isn't that eating very slowly?"

Bai Xihe laughed: "One can is not much, I buy one box at a time, these are consumables, and I have a lot of cats, it would be best not to toss back and forth."

Shang Lin deeply agreed, nodded: "Yes."

When he arrived at Li Yuting's house, he had just finished washing the dishes. Naturally, a man like Shang Lin who belonged to the kitchen was going to help, and later it was Li Yuting who helped him.

Bai Xihe and Qi Luyang sat on the sofa watching TV in an even manner.

"Old Bai, I have some good news for you." Qi Luyang's good mood was written all over his face, making people want to laugh along with him.

"what?"

"The Children's Palace called me before and asked if I could be a teacher there, teaching sketches and oil paintings to children."

"It's really good news, when can I go to work?"

"When the students are on winter vacation, there must be a bunch of parents rushing to enroll their children in interest classes, and I can be honored to work haha."

Bai Xihe smiled: "That's good, but it's a bit cold on the way to work in winter. Let's see if Li Yuting can lend you the car. It's more convenient."

"That's right." Qi Luyang finally considered this issue, and raised his voice to call Li Yuting: "You can lend me the car when the time comes!"

Li Yuting poked his head out from the kitchen. He shaved his hair two days ago, leaving only a short layer of stubble as if he didn't think it was too cold: "I'm afraid you won't be used to my less than ten-year-old hair." Wan's little broken car."

Qi Luyang said angrily: "Why do you always use this to make things up, I have been running away for half a year, can I still be the same as before!"

Li Yuting smiled for a long time: "Okay, anyway, my mud is being delivered by someone now, so I don't need to use the car."

"It's okay, you have to tell me in advance, I'll take it to you, and maybe I can be your driver to pick it up and drop it off occasionally." Qi Luyang said longingly.

Shang Lin in the kitchen couldn't help laughing twice when he heard it.

"Is this octopus braised or fried into salt and pepper?"

"Let's be more democratic, I'll ask." After finishing speaking, he yelled outside.

"Braised!" "Salt and pepper."

The two voices answered at the same time, but it was as if they hadn't asked. Li Yuting laughed and turned around to discuss with Shang Lin in a low voice: "That...is it braised in soy sauce? I can do it whenever I am with you. Eat salt and pepper."

Shang Lin smiled knowingly, nodded and said, "Okay, let's make it braised in soy sauce."

Li Yuting seemed embarrassed by his smile, and coughed to cover up.

Shang Lin shook his head, and said casually: "I think the relationship between you two seems to have changed a little bit compared to before, it seems... more natural and closer."

"Really." Li Yuting smiled lowly: "It's been half a year, and it's time to learn how to get along. There is a big gap between my personality and his, and there is always a process of getting in."

"I knew, you have to cook the hairtail in brown sauce." During the meal, Bai Xihe looked at the dish of hairtail and said in a low voice.

Shang Lin was stunned for a moment, how could it feel that Bai Xihe's tone...was a bit dissatisfied that he didn't make his favorite taste?

It was the first time he saw Bai Xihe like this, and suddenly he felt a little...cute.

"If you want to eat, I'll make it for you tomorrow." Shang Lin couldn't help but smiled, not the clear and shallow smile before, but really happy.

"Okay." Bai Xihe also smiled, nodded and said.

Ten seconds before zero o'clock, all four of them were silent at the same time, only staring intently at the watch in the living room.

When the second hand pointed to twelve o'clock, they raised their wine glasses high and said to each other: "Happy New Year!"

Shang Lin frolicked with them for a while, and suddenly got a little closer to Bai Xihe with a drink, and said in a low voice, "Happy New Year, Xihe."

Bai Xihe smiled and kowtowed to him: "Happy New Year Shanglin."

Shang Zhu got stuck and sent a blessing to Shang Lin. It was a long string, and it took Shang Linguang more than half a minute to read it. I don't know how long she coded it. As a response, he naturally had to send a red envelope. The red envelopes here have just been distributed, and Ms. Zhu and Mr. Shang also gave him red envelopes one by one. Shang Lin thought about it and accepted it. Maybe in the eyes of his parents, even if they are already working and able to support themselves, they will still give him money. As children, Shang Lin should make them happy.

Bai Xihe accidentally spotted it, and said with a smile, "Do you still have red envelopes for Chinese New Year?"

Shang Lin touched his nose: "Ah... I'll accept it if they send it."

Bai Xihe shook his phone: "I don't have this treatment anymore."

"Then why don't you tell your parents?"

Bai Xihe shook his head: "Needless to say, they are in Africa at the moment, the time is different, and they should be sent to me after midnight."

"Your parents... don't they like traveling very much? I heard from you last time that they went to Russia." Shang Lin asked.

Bai Xihe swung his wine glass, and leaned lazily on the back of the chair. The dim light in the living room shone on his face, making Shang Lin feel in a daze... the man he met at the bar before was back again, without the cat by his side , that coolness returned to him.

Shang Lin was used to his gentle and gentle appearance, but the first time they met Bai Xihe had such a temperament. Even though they hadn't seen each other for a long time, Shang Lin still felt a sense of long-lost familiarity.

"They always like to travel. In the past, because I was in school, I only went out twice a year. During my winter and summer vacations. When I graduated from university and went to graduate school, they saw that I could almost support myself, so they herded sheep. I can count on one hand the time I spend at home in a year."

"This is actually quite free." Shang Lin sighed.

Bai Xihe shook his head with a broken smile: "The children in my family are all free-range. I didn't even care about my studies when I was a child, just make me happy. They always take me out to sea to fish, and when I fall into the sea, I still laugh on it. But the premise is that my grades are not bad, I am not crooked, and I am wearing an emergency suit."

Shang Lin couldn't help laughing, and looked sideways at him with his forehead propped up: "I thought, growing up in such an open family, your personality would be more... a little bit rougher."

"It used to be pretty good." Bai Xihe said, "But now I'm 30 years old, so I can't still be so ignorant."

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