The reborn Lao Tzu must walk the right way

New Year's Eve.

When Wang Ren woke up, Ling Xiao was already up.The thin blankets were neatly folded, and the thick quilts were placed in the cabinet like a piece of tofu. Even the messy clothes that Wang Ren lost his temper last night were folded neatly by him again and placed beside the bed. .

After Wang Ren finished washing and opened the door, he saw grandma sitting leisurely on the sofa watching TV, and there was a slight sound in the kitchen.

"I woke up, look at that Xiaoling, I'm so embarrassed, I got up early in the morning to make breakfast, I got up and looked down, and I jumped, and I was not allowed to help!"

Just as he was talking, Ling Xiao brought out the breakfast wearing an apron, and neatly divided it into three parts. The pancakes that were fried just right, the tender egg custard, and a bowl of porridge with chopped green onion and lean meat, all of them were tempting with enthusiasm. Human scent.Wang Ren was almost dumbfounded. He remembered that the last time he went to Ling Xiao's house, there was nothing but noodles and eggs. He thought Ling Xiao was not very good at cooking. Seeing that it looked pretty good, he tasted the porridge, and it tasted just right.

"How does grandma think it tastes? I don't know if it suits your taste." Ling Xiao spoke to grandma, but looked at Wang Ren.

Grandma smiled happily and said, "Okay! Your future daughter-in-law is very lucky! She can do everything well, and she is also good at cooking and hardworking!"

Ling Xiao then smiled and looked at Wang Ren and asked, "What do you think, Ah Ren? Is it too light?"

Wang Ren was eating pancakes, seeing Ling Xiao suddenly came to ask him again, he swallowed the pancakes in his mouth and replied casually "It's okay" and continued to eat.

After breakfast, I started posting couplets. The town is full of single-family houses. Every household has to hang lanterns, post couplets, and set off firecrackers during the New Year. It is lively and lively. Grandma is getting old. In the past, Wang Ren completed it by himself. Now that Ling Xiao came, he took over almost all the work by himself, and Wang Ren felt that he couldn't stand it anymore. Ling Xiao climbed the ladder to paste the couplets, and Wang Ren handed the couplets with paste at the bottom.

"Aren, did you see that the couplets are posted correctly?"

Wang Ren walked a little further, looked carefully for a while, and said, "Go a little more to the left...no, it's too much, go back a little to the right, yes, that's it."

"Aren, hand me the lantern."

Wang Ren tiptoed and handed the lantern up.Then he went to paste the blessing characters. He pasted the blessing characters one by one, and then stood a little far away to look at it. The whole family looked happy. He stretched out his hands in front of his eyes, both hands were dirty It was full of red, and he turned his head to see that Ling Xiao had put away the ladder, stood far away, and was smiling at himself.

"Aren! Your face is blurred!" Ling Xiao stood far away and shouted a little loudly.Wang Ren touched his face, and the tips of his ears turned red.

Ling Xiao laughed out loud. He strode close to Wang Ren, grabbed his hand, and said in a low and gentle voice, "Don't touch it. Look, your hands are dirty." Then he put his hand in front of his eyes.

Wang Ren threw off his hand angrily and went in to wash his face.

Ling Xiao followed him step by step, Wang Ren washed his hands and face, and when he turned around, he saw Ling Xiao standing tall and stumbling behind him, and he gave him a hard look.

Ling Xiao said innocently: "I'm also here to wash my hands, you see—" He opened his hands and shook them in front of Wang Ren's eyes.

Wang Ren coughed, touched his hair again, and walked out from Ling Xiao's side.

In the kitchen, grandma happened to catch the dumpling wrappers, which were thin and round. When she saw Wang Ren coming, she called him over to make dumplings.

Wang Ren dried his hands and was about to start making dumplings when Ling Xiao also came over. As soon as grandma saw him, she greeted him and asked him to make dumplings together.

The three of them were a bit crowded in the kitchen, so grandma asked them to take the dumpling wrappers to the living room to make dumplings.

The stuffing was chopped by Ling Xiao, mixed with taro and chopped green onion, the chopping was very delicate, comparable to being pounded by a machine.The two sat in the living room, and the dumplings made by Wang Ren were very delicate, standing like ingots.

After he had made four or five dumplings, he saw that Ling Xiao was still making that one dumpling, watching Wang Ren's hand gestures while making it, and finally broke the dumpling skin.

Wang Ren looked sideways and said, "You don't know how to make bags, do you?"

Ling Xiao: "I'm just learning, and I'll learn as I see how you treat me."

After hearing this, Wang Ren wrapped it a little slower, observing Ling Xiao's progress while wrapping it.As a result, Ling Xiao broke another dumpling wrapper.

Wang Ren: "Why are you so clumsy! Is it so difficult to make crescent moon dumplings?"

Ling Xiao: "I have big hands, so I can't do such a delicate job, why don't you teach me?"

Wang Ren thought to himself, this has nothing to do with big hands!He also wanted to say forget it, you go and play, I can pack it by myself, but seeing that Ling Xiao was still looking at him with piercing eyes, he couldn't say that.

"Learn my movements, don't be distracted!"

He spread a piece of dumpling wrapper on his hands, and put a proper amount of stuffing on it. Seeing that Ling Xiao had also completed this step, he slowly held his hands slightly and started to glue them together. He did this step very slowly, and he knew the newly learned The key here is, but Ling Xiao couldn't complete this step as if his fingers were uncoordinated.

He was almost impatient, and after making his dumpling, he held Ling Xiao's fingers and corrected them. Ling Xiao's hands were very warm, and the moment he touched them, his fingertips almost trembled for a moment, but he didn't stop pressing him Fingers helped him complete the steps.Ling Xiao looked at the top of his head and raised the corners of his mouth to smile, but before the smile widened, Wang Ren suddenly raised his head to look at him unexpectedly, and caught him straight.

Wang Ren glared at him pretending to be ferocious, stopped looking at him, and started making dumplings on his own, while Ling Xiao paused for a moment in embarrassment, then slowly thought about making dumplings, and slowly he was able to make them decently .

Ling Xiao is good at making almost all kinds of dishes except making dumplings. He is also good at cooking carp. Fried, a piece of crispy carp comes out of the pan, and the other hand sautes minced ginger and garlic and stir-fries the tomato sauce.Then there were a few more fried and stewed dishes.

Wang Ren clapped his hands together and brought out Ling Xiao's prepared dishes one by one.Looking at the table full of dishes, grandma also exclaimed!

Jokingly said: "It would be great if Xiaoling was a girl! I would feel at ease if I have such a granddaughter-in-law! Hahaha my old lady is joking, Xiaoling don't take it to heart!"

Ling Xiao glanced straight at the uncomfortable Wang Ren, and said to grandma: "But Ah Ren doesn't like me like this."

Grandma only thought he was joking, and chatted about other things, and Wang Ren also answered inconsequentially, and the New Year's Eve dinner was a joyous meal.

After eating, Ling Xiao rushes to wash the dishes, because Ling Xiao is used to doing this and that during the Chinese New Year, so grandma is not polite, and Wang Ren is beside him helping to clean the dishes.

Grandma is getting old, and she can't afford it, so she doesn't have the habit of watching the year, and she goes to bed early.The two were busy in the small kitchen, one on the left and one on the right, their movements were very tacit, but the atmosphere was indeed very quiet, so silent that only the sound of breathing could be heard.

"Shou Sui?"

When Ling Xiao spoke suddenly, Wang Ren was taken aback by surprise.It took a while to figure out what he was talking about.

"whatever."

After wiping the last bowl, he walked out.Ling Xiao also followed behind him and followed him into the room.

Both of them took a shower and dried their clothes. It was already 11:30. Ling Xiao put on a coat and took a bag. He took out a thick dress and wrapped it around Wang Ren who was sitting on a chair reading a book, and put it on for him. superior.

Wang Ren trembled slightly, and heard a low and gentle voice in his ear: "Aren, let's go out to set off fireworks."

The warm air touched his earlobe, and he was suddenly dizzy for a moment. The voice in his ear was gentle and seemed to contain infinite nostalgia. It exuded a low-pitched charming smell. He put on Ling Xiao's cloak for him without resistance. The clothes he was wearing followed him out.

It was pitch black outside the house, and occasionally a few windows revealed warm light, reflecting people's eyes, making them look extraordinarily bright.

The wind in the winter night was very cold, and Ling Xiao was very close to him. He was tall and deliberately stood in the wind to shield Wang Ren from the wind.The town at night is vast and empty, the darkness without lights seems to melt into the void of heaven and earth, the wind blows the hair and the hem of the clothes, and the heartbeat of the other party is heard in the ear, like the whole vast and boundless world There were only the two of them, and there was a reassuring illusion in the loneliness.

Ling Xiao took out the fireworks, put them a little farther away, looked at his watch, and started to ignite.

The clock points to zero, and the gorgeous light expands from Wang Ren's pupils little by little, as if piercing the edge of time, space and time from the far end. The voice of Ling Xiao came. He was a little far away from Wang Ren because he was going to set off fireworks. The huge fireworks Rising slowly from behind him, shining from a high place, his face was extremely clear at this moment, the gorgeous fireworks reflected in his eyes were soft and greasy, and his mouth opened and closed to make a low and intoxicating voice.

"Happy New Year, Ren."

Immediately afterwards, the loud noise drowned out his continued words, like a pantomime amidst the noise, he continued to speak, and the houses in the town behind him slowly showed their original appearance, with a strong contrast of light and shadow, The world is so illusory that it is unreal, as if Ling Xiao suddenly used fireworks as an introduction, as if a magician who has entered the mirror created the world in front of Wang Ren's eyes.

Fireworks rang out one after another, and the gorgeous fireworks rose and fell in the pupils of the two people. Ling Xiao walked over slowly, took Wang Ren's cold hands, folded them together in front of his chest, and drank white warm mist from his mouth. , slowly melting the biting coldness of the slender hands exposed to the air for a long time, the warmth gradually eroded into the bone marrow, and strong emotions entered his eyes through his eyes.

Then a light, tender, feather-like kiss was reflected on Wang Ren's lips.

The beautiful fireworks seemed to wake up the whole town. In this era, few people in the town can set off such beautiful fireworks. It is like a colorful rain, and the joyful laughter of children floats in the air.

Ling Xiao and Wang Ren returned to the room, and it was so warm that it made people's faces itch. He hugged Wang Ren from behind and asked in a low voice: "Sleep together tonight, is it okay?"

Wang Ren broke free from his empty hug, took off his coat and got under the quilt, seeing Ling Xiao still standing there stupidly, he said with an impatient look on purpose, "Come up!"

The corners of Ling Xiao's mouth finally rose.

He got into the warm quilt, and the coldness gradually dissipated. Wang Ren turned his back to him, only seeing his delicate hair twirling. closed.

In the darkness, Wang Ren opened his eyes, as if facing the air, and murmured in a voice so soft that it was almost like an auditory hallucination: "Happy New Year."