five years later

On New Year's Eve, it was strange that the temperature dropped sharply, and there was still snow around seven o'clock in the evening.With the greenhouse effect sweeping the world, it is rare to have such a cold New Year's Eve.

Father Ann wrote Spring Festival couplets early in the morning, with black letters on a red background, and each stroke was full of good wishes for the coming year.Perhaps this is the most wonderful part of the Spring Festival. When the time comes, it seems that most people can let go of the gaps in the past, and then put on a soft face, thinking that they must have a better life in the coming year.

The Spring Festival couplets were posted by Liu Youxia.The technique was not proficient enough, the poster at the door was crooked, which made An Yuan beside him laugh non-stop.

"There's no one like you, why don't you tell me if you post it crookedly." Liu Youxia complained and muttered, her small mouth could reach the sky.

An Yuan laughed even harder at his little daughter-in-law's appearance. He stretched out his hand and pinched the other's face, leaned over and whispered: "You have a big opinion on me?"

Liu Youxia quickly waved his hands, flattering him and said, "How can it be, how dare you have an opinion when I love you?"

"Oh?" An Yuan said as he walked towards the bedroom. "Don't dare to have an opinion? Don't be like this. Is there anything between us that dares?"

Stopping at the door, An Yuan turned to look at him, with a half-smile on his face.Of course, in Liu Youxia's eyes, this is not a good signal, maybe it is more appropriate to hide the knife in a smile.

"Xiao Yuan," he called out with blinking eyes, trotted forward with a few other Spring Festival couplets in his hand, and then put his arms around her waist as if to kiss her.

An Yuan pushed his face away in disgust, "Liu Youxia, you are really getting greasy."

Liu Youxia bit her lower lip and looked over pitifully, "Why do you say that about him? Isn't he a white lotus swaying in the wind?"

An Yuan rolled his eyes and shook off the goosebumps all over his body.

"Don't be disgusting, hurry up and paste the Spring Festival couplets, you have to cook later."

Liu Youxia let out an "oh", feeling a mixture of sadness and joy about the image of her nanny and chef deeply ingrained in An Yuan's heart.

Dad An didn't see the two of them looking tired and crooked, cooking soup alone in the kitchen.

"Eat radish in winter and ginger in summer", the soup is very simple, white radish is stewed with bones, and ginger slices and a few chopped green onions are added at the end.The soup is very simple, just like the girl with a warm smile more than 20 years ago.

He can't help but miss her, it seems that it has become a part of life, and he doesn't even know that it hurts others.

Father Ann watched over Tang patiently.He waited until the soup had turned milky white and the radish turned transparent before he stopped, turned off the fire and took the pot aside.

He sprinkled a few grains of salt into it, stirred it evenly and carried it out of the kitchen with a towel.

"Soup."

After An Yuan heard this sentence, he was stunned for a few seconds, but soon he restrained his unwilling expression, and dragged Liu Youxia to wash his hands and prepare to drink soup.

"What's the matter? Don't you like soup? Uncle's craftsmanship is so bad?" Liu Youxia sensed his unnaturalness, and asked hurriedly while washing his hands.

An Yuan didn't want to answer at first, but the other party kept rubbing the ring when holding his hand.This is a promise he made on impulse yesterday, and there is nothing to regret, but he has to show his sincerity for it.

"His craftsmanship is not bad, but after so many years of drinking, he will always get tired." An Yuan didn't dare to look Liu Youxia in the eyes when he spoke.

For this reason, he only said half of the superficial part, and he hasn't figured out how to speak about the deeper part.But he can't be blamed for this, the timing and location are not good, and he can't be asked to confide his decades of mental journey like telling a story.

"Then I'll drink more later, so you won't say anything if you drink less." Liu Youxia came up with a good idea.In the past, it was always too much for two people to drink a pot of soup. Now that the pot has not changed, and the soup has been eaten by three people, it is bound to be much less soup for Anyuan than before.

"Then it's hard work for you." An Yuan replied to him with a smile, and he didn't see anything wrong on his face.

The two walked to the living room together, and Dad An had already served the soup.Liu Youxia looked at it from a distance, walked a little faster, and sat down in front of the bowl that contained more.

Dad An glanced at him, but without saying a word, he just took out two red envelopes from his pocket.

"Let Xiaoyuan take you out for a stroll in the evening, take a look at our place, remember the way, and you can come here often in the future." After speaking, he handed the red envelopes in front of them.

Liu Youxia didn't dare to accept the red envelope, but was shocked by Dad An's words.But in two days, the other party changed his opinion of him, and even acquiesced in his relationship with An Yuan.

This is simply the feeling of stepping on shit luck in the new year.

An Yuan looked at his father with surprise in his eyes.It's just that he was calmer than Liu Youxia, he took the red envelope after staying for only three seconds, and handed one to the person around him.

"Thank you dad."

The people on the side also reacted, and thanked quickly, "Thank you uncle."

The soup is still the same soup, but it has a different taste because of the previous episode.

It was the first time for Liu Youxia to drink, and his feelings were not as harsh as Anyuan's.He really liked this radish soup, and in the end he drank two more bowls of it, and he had his own gluttonous thoughts.

Dad An let go of the matter between the two of them, which seemed to turn the atmosphere of the whole family into a cloud. After drinking the soup, Liu Youxia smiled and went into the kitchen to prepare lunch, followed by An Yuan holding three sets of bowls and chopsticks.

Thinking about it, Liu Youxia's mood was really beautiful, she couldn't stop shaking her head while picking vegetables, and even hummed a song.Holding a handful of celery in his hand to pick the leaves, he suddenly got up and kissed An Yuan on the cheek who was washing the dishes.

"Am I dreaming? Uncle agrees to us being together?"

An Yuan's tightly pursed lips were relaxed by his disturbance. He flicked a few drops of water onto Liu Youxia's face, and asked with a smile, "How do you know that my father agreed with us? It is to give red envelopes to the younger generation, to show the friendship of the landlord."

Liu Youxia pinched off the celery leaves, her expression became serious. "If we were just ordinary friends, how could my uncle resist me so much at first? You told him, right?"

An Yuan was silent for a while.The water kept flowing, splashing a little on his hands.

"I told him about his sexuality." He sighed, turned around and went back to continue his work. "But I didn't tell you about you. But it's not too difficult for him to know, and I didn't want to hide it from him."

Liu Youxia looked at An Yuan, and finally changed the subject. "Where do you want to take me to play at night? Your school didn't finish shopping last time."

Speaking of school, I unconsciously think of that man.Liu Youxia whipped herself a hundred and eighty times in her heart, she pursed her lips and didn't continue the conversation, just buried her head in pulling the leaves.

"His name is Liu Yimao." As if knowing his awkwardness, An Yuan was quiet for a while and introduced him.

"It's an alumni and my best friend. After careful calculation, we haven't seen each other for about 12 years. When I transferred to another school, it happened to be the third year of junior high school, and it was almost the middle school entrance examination. Maybe you are right, I might like him at that time .”

When An Yuan said this, his expression gradually softened, and there was a little smile on the corner of his mouth. "But those likings are not special, without them Liu Yimao is still a very important person in my heart."

"I don't know if you will understand. It is the kind of friend who has accompanied you on many roads. Whether it is the loneliness in the middle of the night or the hesitation in the wind and rain, he is always there. I have always been very grateful to have him by my side at that time .So," An Yuan said to Liu Youxia with a smile, "compared to his preciousness, that liking is really insignificant."

The expression on Liu Youxia's face was unpredictable, and finally he looked over quietly, and sighed with emotion.

"Xiao Yuan, I will envy him if you say that."

An Yuan smiled to comfort his petty eyes. "What's there to envy. He is in the past, and you are in my present and future."

Liu Youxia rolled his eyes because of his words in a blink of an eye.

It snowed around seven o'clock in the evening. After the New Year's Eve dinner, the two wrapped up their scarves, put on their hats, and went out holding hands.

But what is surprising is that when he was about to go out, Dad Ann actually delivered a gift at the door, "Come back early at night, the lights are not turned off."

An Yuan stared blankly at his father, a little overwhelmed by such concern.On the other hand, Liu Youxia, who was on the side, was as good as he was, and replied with a smile: "We will come back after we go out for a stroll. Does uncle eat dumplings? How about cooking some dumplings later to watch the new year together?"

Dad An also laughed, but he didn't say anything, as if he acquiesced to the proposal.

After leaving the community, the snowflakes fell from the sky profusely, and the two of them fell together in a short while.The street lights on the street are faint, reflecting a small world.

The scene is romantic, but the snowflakes melted and slipped into the neck is asking for it.

Liu Youxia led someone along the road, and his thoughts came alive as he walked.He stopped under the lamp, turned around and held An Yuan's face in his palm.

"Say you love me." His pampered look made An Yuan dumbfounded.

"You proposed to me yesterday, but you didn't say some sweet words to coax me, so you should make up for it now."

An Yuan has no resistance to Liu Youxia's acting like a baby, but he still can't help teasing him. "What, regret it?"

Liu Youxia kissed him, from eyebrows to lips, little by little, like a chicken pecking at rice. "I don't regret it, I just want to hear you say love to me."

"Then why didn't you tell me?" An Yuan's breathing became heavier, and what entangled him was like red threads in Yue Lao's hands.

"Don't you think I'm too greasy?" Liu Youxia felt wronged.

An Yuan laughed, and kissed Liu Youxia's chattering lips.He licked it carefully, the tip of his tongue brushing the other's teeth.

The two hadn't had such close contact for a long time, like water that urgently needs to be released from the flood, once the gates are opened, it will rush endlessly and flow for thousands of miles.

Liu Youxia's fingers were very nimble, she unzipped the other person's clothes, and groped in along the hem of the sweater.

It's just that the atmosphere is good, but the temperature doesn't treat people.As soon as his hand touched An Yuan's skin, he was able to get away from such a charming sex.

An Yuan laughed out loud, pressed his forehead against his, and couldn't help saying, "It's cold."

Liu Youxia had no choice but to stop, pulled up his clothes and wrapped up his scarf. "See how we can deal with you when we go back." His appearance was fierce, but his tone was gentle with a puddle of water in his mouth.

An Yuan was quite disdainful, and whispered into Liu Youxia's ear, "Maybe who will take care of whom when we go back?" His words were ambiguous, light and soft, making people's hearts itch.

It's just that he moved quickly, and before Liu Youxia stretched out his arms to hug him, he withdrew from the opponent's embrace.An Yuan trot forward a few steps, turned around and looked at Liu Youxia and said, "Come here."

A light-colored plaid scarf and a red beanie.Under the dim light, An Yuan was very soft and waxy, quiet and gentle, with light dimples around his mouth, and a smile like melted maltose.

Liu Youxia was in a daze for a while, and didn't react until the other party waved at him.He grinned, his eyes curved into crescent moons.

He stepped forward to catch up with An Yuan, continued to hold his hand tightly and put it in his pocket.The two of them walked side by side, occasionally approaching their heads and whispering a few words.

The snow has been falling, but it is not big, wrapping around the other piece gently and tenderly, falling straight to the ground and turning into a pool of inconspicuous water stains.

The author has something to say:

Giving up some conflicts, I still hope that An Yuan and Liu Youxia will live a good life.It's a new year, everyone should live a good life.