Going out alone to eat hot pot with friends on Christmas day always feels like a single dog.

It didn't take long for Zhou Ku, who came near the commercial building with his collar folded, to see Tu Caoshou waving to him.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time. If I had known, I would have picked you up with Brother Yang. This hot pot restaurant is very authentic. If you have anything you want to order, see for yourself. We've already ordered."

"It's enough for the two of you to travel so far to eat hot pot in winter."

Zhou Ku smiled as he walked, but as soon as he entered the room, he saw Jie Zichuan sitting obediently in the booth.

As soon as the other party came up, he stared at him with those twinkling eyes. Zhou Ku wanted to run almost reflexively, but was caught by a tiger from Jie Zichuan, and the other party immediately put on a pitiful expression that he was almost immune to. explain:

"Brother Aku, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to follow. If you don't want to see me, I'll just go."

Tu Caoshou, who was about to ask the waiter to take an order, was surprised when he heard this, while Jie Keyang, who was sitting in the booth and reading the menu, didn't seem to care what happened.

Zhou Ku's expression was indescribable, he pushed away Jie Zichuan's hand, hesitated a little, and said:

"It's okay, no need, you can eat...Mai Sang, I'd better go back first."

"Hey, underpants."

Tu Caoshou was confused by the other party's reaction, and glared at Jie Zichuan, who was still pretending to be pitiful, with a stern look. He nodded at the other party with his index finger, gritted his teeth and said in a low voice:

"Did you fucking do something rubbish that your brother and I don't know about? Damn boy, I'll settle the score with you when I come back."

Then he ran out of the commercial building after chasing Zhou Ku who was leaving in a hurry, and he could still hear the lingering sound of his shouting:

"Pants, wait!"

Not understanding why things suddenly turned out like this, Jie Zichuan sat on the edge of the booth aggrieved, and when he looked up, he found that his cousin was looking at him with unfriendly eyes.

He couldn't help shivering.

……

When he found Zhou Ku on the park bench outside the commercial building, Tu Caoshou felt that he was about to run away.

"How did you come?"

Zhou Ku was just about to light a cigarette when he saw this out of breath man.

Knowing that the other party was looking for him, he tapped the cigarette case with the filter tip, remained silent for a while, and then moved to the side to make room for an empty seat.

Tu Caoshou unceremoniously walked over and sat down, looked up at the soft blue sky, and finally heaved a sigh of relief:

"You really scared me to death. I couldn't find it anywhere. I also said why you disappeared from sight in a minute. There is a lot of traffic on Christmas here. Even if you take a car, you can't go so fast."

"Yeah, I just checked my phone, and I have to wait half an hour for the car."

So the two sat on the chair without talking, and the mist drifted away in the icy wind.

"Tell me about Jie Zichuan and you."

Tu Caoshou sat up straight:

"A few days ago, he suddenly asked me to ask you out on Christmas. I just wanted to ask you to have hot pot with Brother Yang on Christmas. Let him be normal, and he agreed...I didn't expect you to leave as soon as you saw him. what happens?"

Zhou Ku put the cigarette in his mouth, bit the filter and said vaguely:

"I don't want to talk to him much."

He took out the lighter from his pocket and lowered his head to light it. It might be because the wind was too strong, or his hands were trembling from the cold. The lighter would go out as soon as he hit it. Lighter, leaning sideways to light his cigarette neatly.

It may be that the two people blocked the wind. Although the flames swayed violently, the cigarette was finally lit.

"Thank you." Zhou Ku said.

"Small idea."

Putting the lighter back into the opponent's pocket, Tu Caoshou said:

"You don't want to talk to him, then what?"

"No then."

The mist mixed with the smell of cigarettes was scattered in the distant night scene, Zhou Ku looked at the street market that formed a line of shining lights, and asked:

"Is that the Christmas market over there?"

"Yes."

Tu Caoshou tentatively asked:

"Go for a walk after dinner?"

Zhou Ku lowered his head and took two puffs of his cigarette, thinking for a while in the cold wind.

Putting his left hand in his pocket, he got up and said:

"Okay, let's go then."

"Back to the hot pot restaurant?"

"Ah."

So the two walked back to the commercial building slowly following the route they came from. Zhou Ku put out the cigarette in the trash can outside, and made countless psychological preparations for himself, and finally set foot in this hot pot again with Tu Caoshou shop.

As soon as he entered, he found that only Jie Keyang was sitting in the booth, the pot was already simmering, and Jie Zichuan had gone somewhere.

"Where are people from Jiezichuan?" Tu Caoshou asked.

"Let's go." Jie Keyang said.

"Why did you leave suddenly? Hasn't he been clamoring for the past few days that he wants to eat the fresh-cut beef here?"

Tu Caoshou asked strangely:

"Did you quarrel with him?"

Putting the paper menu upright on the side of the table, Jie Keyang looked up at him and said calmly:

"No."

Seeing the other party's answer like this, Tu Caoshou had a rough idea in his mind.

——Although the two of them had never quarreled, Jie Keyang might have said something that caused Jie Zichuan to leave here first... But, it is considered a good thing.

"Okay, leave him alone, the meat is on the table, eat it."

This meal, Zhou Ku obviously ate absent-mindedly, as if he was hiding something in his heart, he only lowered his head to pick up the scum. Although Tu Caoshou noticed it, the meat and soup base in this restaurant taste really good, so let’s not worry about it for now. Only give the remaining two people crazy cloth dishes.

It took two hours to eat this meal. The three of them came out of the hot pot restaurant steaming hot, and were about to go to the park near the commercial building to visit the Lantern Market. When they went out, they saw Jie Zichuan leaning against the entrance of the commercial building alone. Don't know what to expect there.

Zhou Ku saw it first, hesitated for a moment, and took two quick steps and patted Tu Caoshou's shoulder, asking:

"Is that Jie Zichuan?"

"...It seems to be true, why is he there?"

Tu Caoshou glanced at Jie Zichuan, whose cheeks were flushed from the cold, in surprise, and was about to call him, but Jie Keyang suddenly reached out and lifted his hoodie, and patted his back.

He immediately changed his words:

"Forget it, forget him, let's go to the Lantern City first, and he can treat him as he likes, and he will freeze to death."

Zhou Ku:? ? ?

Zhou Ku, who got this kind of answer, was full of question marks:

"You don't care about him?"

"He's not under our control." Tu Caoshou said, "If we manage him, he won't listen. The rebellious period of a child is very bearable."

Walking in the direction of Lantern City, just as they were approaching the side of the road, Zhou Ku suddenly stopped and said to them apologetically:

"...I seem to have left my lighter at the hot pot restaurant, you guys go first, I'll come to you later."

"……Okay."

Calmly glanced at the expressionless Jie Keyang, Tu Caoshou withdrew his gaze, and smiled meaningfully at Zhou Ku:

"Go ahead."

……

The lantern market was unexpectedly lively, and the small stalls formed a golden stream of color.

Tu Caoshou thought he was already full, but when he saw the steaming roadside snacks, he felt hungry again.

The two stopped for a while at a small stall selling groceries. Jie Keyang's eyes stayed on a very long scarf. Tu Caoshou knew that this person who never cared about couple's supplies must not know what this is for. At that time, I wanted to tease him, so I deliberately asked him:

"Do you know why this scarf is so long?"

"..." Jie Keyang fell into deep thought.

"This scarf can wrap you from head to toe, as long as you wrap it well, it is guaranteed that no wind can get in."

Tu Caoshou said with a smile:

"Yes, boss."

The boss was a middle-aged woman with a lot of laugh lines, she looked at the two with a smile and said nothing.

"This is too short."

Jie Keyang responded seriously:

"Can't get around."

Tu Caoshou held back a smile and hugged his neck and kept shaking, and finally said:

"Look here first, I'm going to buy a fish ball to eat."

"it is good."

Jie Keyang watched the man running to the oden next door, stretched out his hand to pull up the pattern of the scarf, and found a small superman image painted on the tail, he couldn't help but smile.

As soon as he got his oden, a piece of fabric that fell from the sky suddenly strangled his neck loosely. He turned his head and saw Jie Keyang wrapping the remaining long scarf around his neck.

"This is a double scarf." Jie Keyang emphasized.

"I don't wear a scarf because I'm afraid it will get dirty when I bow my head, brother."

Tu Caoshou can't laugh or cry:

"How can I eat when you surround me like this?"

"…look up."

Jie Keyang poked a fish ball with a bamboo stick in the bowl, and fed it directly into his mouth.

Chewing the ball in his mouth, he puffed out his cheeks and couldn't speak for a while, and felt a long-lost... shy feeling.

Jie Keyang, who was helping him with the Kanto cooking box, stood cleanly in the brightly lit street market and said to him:

"Let's go."

Chewing the meatballs, he obediently followed the other party.

When he saw the window selling matcha ice cream, he couldn't control himself and went to line up. After buying one, he asked Jie Keyang to take the first bite, and then he ate the rest.

After eating for a while, when they walked to a small path far away from the market, Jie Keyang suddenly lowered his head and licked the corner of his lips with the tip of his tongue.

"Well???"

Then it got out of hand.

They hide under the overlapping scarves, the sweet and icy taste melts into the warm matcha taste, the orange light shrouds the corners of the eyebrows and eyes, the pink tide surges on the cheeks, the man restrains himself from the sweet world of taste , reaching out to control the upturned face of his lover.

The emotion that he thought he had concealed well was actually clearly visible in the eyes of the other party.

"Hey, it's almost twelve o'clock."

After licking his wet lips, Tu Caoshou opened his mouth:

"You have nothing to say to me?"

"……Merry Christmas."

"anything else?"

The man pressed his forehead affectionately and whispered:

“Matcha is too sweet.”

He let out a muffled laugh, squinted his eyes to look at the expressionless complainer in front of him, and responded in a low voice:

"Not telling the truth."

"..."

Pulling up the long scarves of the two, he gently pushed away the pressure of the man:

"gone."

Holding the hand of this person back into the bustling crowd, they disappeared in the beautiful lights like fireworks.

……

When he took Jie Zichuan to Dengshi, Zhou Ku still didn't understand why he was so sympathetic.

He clearly knew that Jie Zichuan's behavior during this period was strictly a perverted stalker, but when he saw this man's face flushed from the cold outside, stomping his feet and rubbing his hands, he couldn't help but take care of it—although it was probably pitiful. The mentality of a puppy and a cat, but this guy is a completely different level of creature from a kitten and a puppy.

But this time, Jie Zichuan was a little too quiet.

He had to turn his head from time to time to make sure that the other party was still following him, like a parent who brought a child out to play, fearing that there would be too many people and the other party would be dispersed.

"What do you want to eat?"

When passing by a skewer stall, he turned around and asked.

"Ah, okay."

After getting a response, Zhou Ku randomly ordered a few different kinds of skewers, and bought an extra bowl. He was always distracted when he was eating hot pot with Mai Sang before, and now looking back, he also feels a little hungry.

The two walked and ate with two tubes of skewers, Jie Zichuan finally spoke to him cautiously:

"That, Aku."

"Ok?"

"Brother Tu didn't bring me here, but I must follow him, that's why he brought me here."

"I know."

Putting the eaten bamboo sticks back into the tube, Zhou Ku filled his pockets and turned over the paper. Jie Zichuan immediately stuffed the paper torn from the booth just now into his hand.

"Thank you."

"No thanks."

The number of people nearby gradually increased, and they sat down by the platform of the small fountain, neither of them spoke.

The sound of the wind becomes quieter in places with a lot of people, and Jie Zichuan's voice becomes very clear at this time, because the wind cannot be blocked, not to mention that this person's expressions have always been so straightforward——

"Aku, do you...don't like me?"

Holding the empty bamboo stick, Zhou Ku smiled at Jie Zichuan.

Without even hesitating, he nodded his head very simply:

"Yes, I regard you as a former roommate, and I don't like men, I have said this many times."

As if hearing such rejection for the first time, Jie Zichuan slowly lowered his head and stopped talking. At this moment, a cloud of colorful fireworks suddenly exploded in the sky.

Zhou Ku actually heard the sound of liquid falling on the carton. Although he felt that this was a very likely situation, he felt a little cruel in his heart, but this kind of cruelty is necessary—— There are many things that never work hard to succeed.

He understood this truth very well, and Jie Zichuan had to understand it too.

Looking up at the fireworks, he studied the height of the fireworks and the shape of the spray, avoiding the other party's possible line of sight.

"Haha, such an answer is expected."

The young man pretended to say it lightly, but there was still a strong trill in his tone:

"Although this is the case, it is really great to spend Christmas with Aku this year."

"..."

Hearing such words, Zhou Ku couldn't help but glanced at the person next to him for a while.

This person's eyes were flushed, and he also learned to stare at the fireworks in the sky as intently as he did. His beautifully shaped lips opened and closed, very lightly making a wish for the coming year.

"I hope next year, the year after, and the year after that, we can spend Christmas together... even if you don't like me."

The young man suddenly looked back and burst into a bright smile at him, dazzling like a small sun full of enthusiasm.

Zhou Ku was stunned.

The clock struck twelve.

a bit.

Twice.

Three times.

……

Twelve strokes.

——The dreamer should return to reality, and the misplaced plot will soon return to its original state.

……

Force quit, success.

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postscript:

In fact, the full text has been finished here. Since there is nothing to write about the follow-up of the third world, I probably won’t write it. However, since Fan San’s explanation to Tu Xuxu has not been explained yet, there will be a chapter to supplement the end of the main text.

Say thank you to all the cuties who have been chasing here w As always, thanks to Jinjin, Feather, and Xiaoqingcha, and other cuties who have been chasing

Can't believe I ended up finishing this book...

When this impromptu book was opened, there was no outline at all, and many character designs and background details were recorded while writing, so that Cavin often fell into despair, but in the end he knocked out all the chapters through the bald method. In fact, it is still a bit I'm so happy, I finished another book qwq

The extra episode may depend on the time after the next year, there should be one

In the last chapter, Little Tail will introduce the brief introduction of "Magic Cultivation Raiders", remember to collect it if you like it

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