an inch of light

She sat there and cried silently for a long time, until she felt that crying like this was really stupid, so she wiped her tears and went to wash her face with cold water.When she came back, she saw QQ flashing on the computer screen, and Wushen sent her many messages, asking what the hell was going on with her and Lao Shi.She casually copied the link of the post and sent it over, turned off QQ, and started browsing the new episodes that she hadn't had time to follow a few days ago.

Just halfway through an episode, the phone rang, and it was Yifan who called: "Aren't you on QQ? I'm downstairs, come down quickly."

Today is the day to go to grandma's house, Shen Yuying just remembered, and quickly jumped off the chair: "Come on, wait for me." She trotted downstairs, Qiao Yifan had obviously been waiting downstairs for a while Now, as soon as she saw her, she looked at her face, she turned her face aside, and walked forward quickly.In order to take care of grandma conveniently, my uncle, like her family, bought a house in a community near grandma's house, and it took only half an hour to walk there.

"...Did you not sleep well last night? Your eyes are quite swollen." After the two walked out in silence for a while, he asked tentatively.

"Hmm... Chasing Xinfan too late..." She said absent-mindedly, habitually taking out her phone, wanting to see how many floors the post had reached.

"Ah, why doesn't your pastor have a guild?" Seeing her looking at her phone, Qiao Yifan also took out her phone to look at it, and then yelled.

"I have withdrawn from the membership." Shen Yuying replied sullenly that he would find out so soon.

"Uh, why? I think you're having a good time in that guild." Every day when you go online, you just jump into the game. Since the last game, he hasn't had a good conversation with her for a long time.

"Because... I'll tell you after crossing the road." This crosswalk has been repaired for many years and no traffic lights have been installed. She naturally grabbed his sleeve and looked left and right.Qiao Yifan looked down at the whirling hair on the back of her head, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.He had grown taller than her long ago, but she was still the same as before, whenever she went to a crowded place or crossed the road, she nervously pulled up Ahong with one hand and pulled him up with the other.She was the most courageous of the three, always dawdling for a long time, and dared not go forward until the bus was over, but she always regarded herself as the eldest cousin and prevented them from running around.How did it start that she no longer held his hand, but became a sleeve puller?

"Let's go!" He was still remembering, she tugged on his sleeve and followed the crowd.It was rush hour, and the electric vehicles rushing home were crowded together with the crowd, and the only few centimeters between them were squeezed out.He spread his fingers intentionally or unintentionally, and the back of her hand touched his fingertips from time to time. Every time he touched, the soft and creamy touch made his ears blush.They were so close that he could smell the faint scent of shampoo in her hair, the sweet bergamot scent he was most familiar with.When they came out from the crowd, she let go of her hand quickly, and he breathed a sigh of relief calmly, putting his hand back into his pocket, but he felt a little regretful.

"...Tell me, what do they mean by trying so hard to smear me?" Shen Yuying didn't notice his small thoughts at all, she was still gritting her teeth and complaining about those people who didn't have enough to eat.If she looked up at this moment, she would be surprised to find that his ears were completely red.

"Yeah, yes!" Qiao Yifan was thinking wildly, and he didn't know what she was talking about, so he echoed.

"You just say yes when I say something? Are you listening to me?" She stopped and glanced at him dissatisfied.

As expected of a professional player, Qiao Yifan quickly calmed down, and ran through the previous summary in his mind: "...His teammate said you were sent by Wushen because he was hungry?"

"That's right! You bought my cross for me, so how could it be blamed on Wushen? How much does Ziwu cost, how much does the ticket cost? These people can't use their brains to figure it out before they make up lies. Forget it?" Shen Yuying was almost powerless to complain, "The most annoying thing is that even people believe such words, what about IQ? I'm speechless..."

"Well, it's too much!" Qiao Yifan said in a low voice, with anger in his tone that he didn't realize, and he grabbed the account card in his pocket.

As soon as they entered, Shen Yuying was reprimanded by her own mother, Ms. Wang Jiaojiao: "——I don't know what time to go out, and the whole family is waiting for you. You are too old to have a brain—— this person If you don’t grow your brains, at least you can grow your stature. You have been in H city for a year, and you don’t even grow tall. You just know how to stay indoors and play computer games every day——Yifan can become a professional player by playing a game. Can a computer be eaten or worn—”

Not seeing each other for two months, Mrs. Wang's lion roar skills have become more and more proficient. The middle-aged soprano's voice is higher than the wave, and she is ashamed like a child's daughter-in-law. It was not until Qiao Yifan called her in the kitchen to help her Rescued from mother's saliva bath. "...Learn more from Yifan. How can you get married when you're so old that you can't even fry an egg? When I was your age, I was the only one who had a dozen or so people's New Year's Eve dinners. It's managed by one person..." Wang Jiaojiao has a very delicate name, but she is not squeamish, so she made a concluding statement, changed the subject, and started discussing the dishes for the New Year's Eve dinner with her sister-in-law and younger siblings.

Shen's father is an outsider, and his grandparents live with their eldest son and daughter in their hometown more than 100 kilometers away, and they only move around during the New Year's Eve.Even on New Year's Eve, the family only went back to have lunch, and rushed back to the city after offering sacrifices to their ancestors.Shen Yuying spends the Spring Festival every year at her grandmother's house.She is the only girl among the grandchildren of the Wang family, and the little padded jacket that grandma loves most.Unlike in her hometown, her grandparents disliked her as a girl who lost money, and they always tortured her parents to have another boy.Wang Jiaojiao, who grew up in the city, couldn't hear this, she exploded as soon as she said it, and she didn't look good every time she came back from her hometown.

"Grandma, your daughter is yelling at me again, please take care of her..." As soon as Shen Yuying entered the kitchen, she hugged her grandma and acted like a spoiled child.Qiao Yifan was about to finish washing and wiping at the counter, and he knew at a glance that there was nothing wrong with her.

"Ouch, little ancestor, look at your clothes. I'm frying ribs here. Be careful when the oil splashes on your mother and scold you again. Your mother's temper, I'm her own mother, I dare not speak of her, what did she say? Just listen. Wash your hands quickly, the dishes will be ready in no time, go and help Yifan set the table." Grandma hurriedly took a picture of her, with distaste and nagging in her mouth, she turned around and closed her eyes with a smile.

"Look, my mother hates me, even my grandma hates me!" She could only turn to this side, and squeezed pitifully beside Yifan to wash her hands.

Qiao Yifan stepped aside, turned his head and smiled shyly at her: "It's okay, I don't despise you!"

"Huh, let's take a look, Yifan treats me better!" Shen Yuying smiled smugly, but she still didn't forget to turn her head to take a peek. Why hasn't grandma's sweet and sour pork ribs and pineapple cup been ready yet?

Qiao Yifan just lowered his head to wash his chopsticks, smiled and didn't answer.After so many years, the good card she sent him could have circled the world.

After finally finishing the meal, Wang Zihong couldn't sit still for a long time, and kept winking at Shen Yuying.Shen Yuying understood, and approached Wang Jiaojiao flatteringly: "Mom, I'll take my cousins ​​out for a walk." Wang Jiaojiao was just about to start talking about her parents, so she waved her hand, yes.The three juniors said goodbye to everyone one by one, and finally got out of the house.

"It's over, it's too late. I have a guild event tonight, and it must be too late to go home. I'll go to the Big Sixi around the corner to surf the Internet. Don't tell my mother." Although Wang Zihong is a fat man, his movements are very fast. Being flexible, they had already rushed more than ten meters away while speaking, and only the two of them were left looking at each other.At this time in previous years, the three of them would go to Binjiang Square not far from here after eating, visit the Spring Festival flower market, and put Kongming lanterns.Unexpectedly, this kid abandoned the two of them just to play games.

"Continue?" Qiao Yifan asked for her opinion.

"Go on." Shen Yuying said, she didn't want to play games, and she had nothing to do except go online when she went back.

They walked and chatted, and there were two long shadows dragging on the road behind them, both in pockets and scarves, and they even walked at the same pace.Qiao Yifan deliberately adjusted his pace so that Shen Yuying would not have to struggle so much to follow, so he walked slowly into Binjiang Road.This year's flower market is still as lively as in previous years, full of colorful flowers, crowded and noisy, and thousands of colored lights make people's faces red, and they look beaming.They all grew up here, and they have long been accustomed to this kind of ordinary people's life in the city. They don't feel noisy and crowded at all, and they all smile and look up at the lanterns.When there were too many people, she covered her mobile phone and wallet with one hand, and naturally pulled up his sleeve with the other hand, and he also tried to lean towards her as much as possible so as not to be scattered by the crowd.

"Hey, that house has Kongming lanterns!" Shen Yuying shouted, pointing at a small stall on the side of the road with sharp eyes.Qiao Yifan got the order, and squeezed in to find the gap, protecting her behind her.

There are quite a variety of styles of Kongming lanterns on this stall, and the best sellers are the counterfeit Kongming lanterns with Glory 24 occupations printed on them.Shen Yuying couldn't avoid it, and directed Qiao Yifan to take down the white priest lamp with a blessing set hanging high, and asked for another assassin and a ghost.She asked for ghosts instead of killing ghosts. The shopkeeper rummaged in the van for a long time before they found a theme about ghosts, but Li Xuan's "Devil Crying at the Mountain" was printed.

"I don't want to cry at the mountain, handsome guy, find me a professional suit." Afraid that Qiao Yifan would feel uncomfortable after seeing it, she opened it and took a look before pushing it back, shaking her head and saying no.

Hearing what she said, the little boss was embarrassed: "Beauty, there are not many people who play ghosts. I have entered ten this year, and they are all ghosts. You don't want anything else."

"It's okay, this is what I need." Before she could speak again, Qiao Yifan handed over the money directly, and nodded to her with a frank smile.He knew how considerate she was, but he wasn't so fragile yet that he wouldn't feel uncomfortable seeing Li Xuan's character.His goal is the first wave of ghosts, and there is still a long way to go, why would he be discouraged by a small Kongming lantern?

Seeing that his mood was not affected, Shen Yuying also relaxed a lot, picked up the highlighter provided by the store and wrote behind the lamp:

"First, I wish my family is safe, second, I wish the country and the people are safe, and third, I wish that people will always be around every year, and that I don't fail in all subjects!"

She turned her head to look at Yifan, what he wrote was similar to hers, and it was still the same old saying: "First, I wish you all the best and peace, second, I wish you happiness and health, and third, I wish you like Liang Shangyan, and see you again every year."

There was only the Ghost Lantern that hadn't been written yet, so she pulled over and picked up the pen to write, but what she wrote was the sentence he signed on the account card: "Live up to your dreams, never give up." There is still a line of blank space below. , but she was stuck, biting her lip and looking at him.

"Let me do it." Qiao Yifan smiled again, took the pen and wrote down: "I will live up to my honor and live up to my honor." The name of his ghost was written on the signature, One Inch Ash.

Shen Yuying thought for a while, and signed her pastor's name next to One Inch Ash.

Mr. Banyuan, One Inch Ash, she silently chanted, and found that their names were very congenial.At that moment, a strange thought flashed through her mind.But when she raised her face to look at his smiling face, she couldn't remember anything.

Holding Kongming lanterns, they struggled through the crowd and squeezed onto the guardrail by the river.The night sky has been filled with Kongming lanterns of various colors, entrusting the best and deepest wishes in people's hearts, flying to the distance.Qiao Yifan lifted the Kongming Lantern high, and pulled out the protective bolt underneath.

puff!

The light of the firefly lit up in his hand, and the lighted priest's lamp quickly expanded and took shape, flying into the night sky.

puff!puff!

The assassin and the ghost were released by him one after another, followed by them, flying out precariously.

Shen Yuying watched the Kongming Lantern go away, and it took a long time to turn her head and meet Qiao Yifan's gaze.In his quiet eyes, there was a shimmer that made her bewildered and fascinated.

The author has something to say: It is illegal to produce, sell, and set off sky lanterns! ! !

It is illegal to produce, sell and discharge Kongming lanterns! ! !

It is illegal to produce, sell and discharge Kongming lanterns! ! !

Repeat the above ten thousand times! ! !

What Yifan and Meizi have released is the low-temperature, non-toxic and non-polluting high of the future!division!technology!Kongming Lantern! ! !

A chapter that is full of integrity and sprinkles sugar, did someone who urged the update see it ╮(╯_╰)╭

The congratulatory speech is adapted from the Yuefu poem "Longevity Girl". Have you all read it?