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The winter in the south is really hard.

After checking this month's bills, Jiang Ye fell on his back on the bed with his computer in his arms, and sighed after the winter.He moved his fingers to pay the heating bill, then quickly closed the notebook and put it aside, out of sight and out of mind.

"Xie Lian, Xie Lian," Jiang Ye jumped off the ground and ran to the study with bare feet, "The heating bill has gone up again!"

Xie Lian moved his eyes away from the document, and when he looked up, he saw his bare feet, and sighed helplessly, "You don't wear shoes all day long, what should you do if you don't turn up the floor heating temperature?"

Jiang also blinked twice, turned around and went back to the bedroom to put on his shoes.

"Okay," Xie Lian waved his hand to attract people, and said with a smile, "You sit here, and I'll get it."

After a while, Xie Lian returned to the study with two plush white slippers.Jiang Ye was huddling his knees in the office chair at this time, half-closed his eyes, and leaned closer to look at the documents on the table.

"It's so hard..." Jiang Ye murmured, "Are there so many things to do?"

Xie Lian walked over and put the slippers on the ground, "It's the end of the year, and it's normal to have a lot of things." He leaned over and exchanged kisses with Jiang Ye, then called up the memo on the computer, and asked sideways: "What do you have on the 24th?" empty?"

Jiang also pinched his fingers and calculated, "I haven't finished drawing this month's manuscript, and it has to be handed in at the beginning of January... on the 24th. I should be at home to catch up on the manuscript. What's wrong?"

"Christmas Eve." Xie Lian rubbed his hair twice, "I asked for leave for those two days, let's go to the north, it's more atmospheric when it snows."

"What are you doing going so far? Didn't you get by when there was no snow in college?"

Thinking of the first time the two celebrated Christmas, Xie Lian ran all the way to Jiangye's city and waited for a long time under the dormitory. When Jiangye arrived, there was a shattered peace fruit.At that time, Jiang was also extremely embarrassed. He hurriedly explained that the corridor of the dormitory had just been mopped by his aunt. Because of the cold weather, the water quickly froze. He ran two steps in a hurry and fell out.

This memory made Xie Lian laugh out loud, "Well, I ended up having a meal in your school cafeteria, which is considered a holiday."

Jiang also blushed a little, "It's all my fault for running too fast."

"By the way," Xie Lian swiped off his phone, "I'll call your editor tomorrow and ask if the manuscript can be delayed for two days. If there's no problem, I'll book a plane ticket."

"So you haven't booked a ticket yet?"

"Ok?"

Having been with Xie Lian for a long time, Jiang also gradually gained a thorough understanding of this person's virtues.Glancing at Xie Lian, he said, "From what you've seen, it's premeditated. I thought you've got everything done, and you're just waiting for something to happen first."

Xie Lian paused with his fingers, then lowered his head and laughed sullenly.

"Okay," Jiang Ye pushed him lightly, "You really are lying to me again!"

Xie Lian grabbed his hand shamelessly, put it on his lips and kissed it, and said, "Isn't this showing your husband and I are democratic?"

Jiang Ye's editor-in-charge was a young girl with an open mind. She became friends with Jiang Ye when she first met him. Naturally, she also knew about his family's situation.

"Okay, no problem." The girl said in a lively tone, "You have to catch up in the next few days! It's okay for you to go sweet with the one at home. If you forget about work and ignore the life and death of me, a single overtime dog—— "

Jiang also hurriedly said, "No, no, I will definitely pay you all before the third."

After hanging up the phone, Jiang also squatted back on the ground to pack his luggage.Clothes are rolled up for storage, panties and socks are used to fill gaps, and snow boots are first put in a bag outside and then put inside.

Xie Lian came in half an hour ago to help him tidy up, but he immediately drove him away.

"You packed the luggage last time I went out to play!" Jiang Ye folded a pair of jeans and looked up at him, "The clothes in the hotel are all wrinkled, how do you wear them!"

Being reprimanded by his daughter-in-law, Xie Lian had no choice but to drag his slippers into the kitchen to prepare dinner.

Jiang Ye had almost finished packing his luggage, and dinner was ready there.Looking at the bright red spicy chicken on the table, he couldn't help but burst into laughter.

"Hey, that's fine, don't mention it anymore." Xie Lian glanced at him with a smile, and knocked on the side of the bowl with chopsticks, "It's like this every time, why haven't I forgotten it after so many years. Hurry up and eat."

Jiang Ye picked up food while having fun, "Okay. Oh, by the way, what time is the flight tomorrow?"

"One o'clock in the afternoon."

"Well," Jiang Ye bit his chopsticks and thought for a while, "Then I can sleep until I wake up naturally."

Xie Lian said, "Pull it down, you can sleep until one o'clock in the afternoon."

The next day Jiang also failed to wake up naturally, and Xie Lian squeezed and kneaded him behind him, and he just turned around moaning, and then buried himself deeper in the quilt.

He had a hard time in college for four years. Not only was he busy with classes, but he also worked a lot of part-time jobs in his free time to subsidize his tuition fees and the high cost of living in big cities. It has become normal to only sleep five or six hours at night.Xie Lian often said that he is now snoozing to make up for the hardships he suffered.

Jiang here is also reluctant to get up, but that flight is also waiting for no one, Xie Lian reached out and rubbed his cheek, "Hey, get up."

Unexpectedly, Jiang ignored him at all, and quickly turned his body to the other side, leaving him with a smooth back.

Xie Lian laughed angrily, "Damn it."

He leaned over and bit Jiang Ye's eartips, which were red from the heat, and threatened in a low voice, "I won't get up again..." He reached into the quilt and patted the soft buttocks suggestively.

Jiang Ye opened one eye in a daze, muttered something, and tried to push Xie Lian's arm away with his backhand.

"Okay, get up." Xie Lian knew he was awake, took his hand and shook his fingers, "Good boy."

After going through the check-in procedures at the airport, the two of them took the boarding pass, passed through countless shops and restaurants, turned around and got off the elevator, and finally arrived at the corresponding boarding gate.

Xie Lian asked, "Do you think you can be on time?"

"That's enough." Jiang also compared the flight number and checked its historical punctuality rate with his mobile phone. "It's only 30.00%, so it must be late."

"It's not guaranteed that we will be lucky."

Jiang also turned off his cell phone and stared at him brightly, "Just take a gamble, I'll hold back later."

"Well," Xie Lian nodded, "Then I bet you win."

"What, there is no such thing."

Xie Lian smiled casually, "I'm not interested in those, I just want to stand by your side."

Perhaps it was God's blessing that this flight actually landed on the tarmac at the scheduled time, which added an insignificant sum to its only 30.00% punctual career.

After getting on the plane, Jiang was sleepy within a short while, leaning on Xie Lian's shoulder to catch up on sleep.And this feeling directly spanned half of China, and when he opened his eyes again, he had arrived at his destination.

Sitting in the taxi to the hotel, Jiang also took a picture of the snowflakes falling outside the window and sent it to Jinyao.

"My mother said we were both sick." He smiled with his eyes bent. "My aunt also asked, what are you doing in the north in the winter. I told them that Christmas should be lively, and they said we worship foreign countries and insist on living in this foreign country." Festival."

Xie Lian asked, "Are they still in Bangkok?"

"I just left Bangkok today, and I'm about to arrive in Pattaya. I said I'll go back after staying for a few more days, and I can't bear to pay for the hotel."

"These two are really good," Xie Lian shook his head helplessly. "It's not warm at home in winter. It's good to stay in Thailand for two more days. Tell them not to be reluctant to spend money. We don't make money to make them reluctant to live in a hotel." of."

Jiang also let go of the voice button, pressed it again after the message was sent, and said into the microphone: "Mom, auntie, listen up, Xie Lian said the same thing. You can play at ease, and talk about it when you want to go home , you’ve worked hard all your life, don’t be reluctant now.”

There was still some distance from the hotel, and the two sides chatted on video for a while, and finally they were forced to hang up early because the signal at the other end was too bad.

Turning off the phone, Jiang also said, "But yes, what are we doing during this foreign festival? I'm no longer the brat I was in college."

Xie Lian held his hand, "Does life need a sense of ritual?"

The car climbed a semi-circular slope and stopped in front of the hotel gate.

It didn't take much effort to complete the check-in procedures. The two pushed their luggage to wait for the elevator. After going up, Jiang wanted to say something, but soon someone came up again, so he had to swallow the words again.

Xie Lian saw that he was wrong, and after entering the room, he wrapped his arms around his waist from behind and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

"I don't know if I'm overthinking..." Jiang Ye's voice was a little aggrieved, "When we checked in just now, the girl looked at us a little strangely, just...just not very friendly."

Xie Lian's hands tightened a little.

This is impossible.In the general environment, this is something that deserves to be wronged, and it is something that cannot be justified.Who is wrong?No one is wrong.

Xie Lian didn't know how to comfort him, so she lowered her head and kissed his neck, "You are my lover, and this will not change. If others don't look good, then don't look at him."

Jiang also nodded vigorously.He re-established his mentality as quickly as possible, turned around and said with a smile: "Okay, let's not talk about this. It's hard to come and lie down, you go and change into a thicker coat, let's go out for a walk."

Although Christmas is only a marketing tool for businesses in China, the Santa Claus on the window, the accumulation of red, green and green elements in the store, and the non-stop Christmas songs on the low-quality speakers all add to this commercialization. There is a touch of humanity.

Walking on this famous street, Jiang also thought about the popsicles he ate last time. After searching through Dianping for a long time, he couldn't remember where he ate them.

"They're all about the same," Xie Lian casually pointed to one family, "Let's just go there."

Sure enough, when the white plastic skin was peeled off, the velvet yellow Sifang ice cream was exposed, exactly as I remembered.Jiang also lowered his head and took a bite, the aroma of milk overflowed in his mouth, "This is the taste."

Xie Lian smiled, "Come on, how many years have passed, do you still remember the taste. Give me a taste." He reached out to take the ice cream and took a bite.

"How?" Jiang looked at him unconvinced, "Is that the smell?"

"I don't remember, I just want to eat ice cream with you."

Jiang also hit him with a smile, "Then why do you try it, and give me back the ice cream!"

Xie Lian deliberately took another bite, then pinched the ice cream and pointed to a shop by the side of the road, "Come on, go in and have a look."

A small shop is decorated warmly and neatly.The store mainly focuses on handicrafts, combined with Christmas elements, Jiang also looked left and right, and he couldn't put it down for all kinds of small objects.

Jiang Ye finally chose two desk decorations. When he checked out, he found that although the store was located in a popular scenic spot, the prices of the items were very reasonable.The boss also has the enthusiasm and boldness of the northerners. Knowing that they are guests from the south, he generously discounted them and gave them two extra Christmas socks that are very childlike.

The two stopped and stopped all the way, and it was nine o'clock in a flash.

Today is Christmas Eve, if you are particular about it, you must take your lover to have a romantic western meal, and say some tender words between the knife and fork.But Jiang is also not used to those Western foods, and Xie Lian has become down-to-earth after being with him for so long, so he booked a spring cake shop with a good reputation in advance, and spent this time amidst the crowds, which belonged to and did not belong to them. festival.

After returning to the hotel, Jiang also took out two Christmas socks, kept one for himself, and handed the other to Xie Lian.

"It's hanging on your bedside," he said. "Santa Claus will come to give you presents tomorrow morning."

Xie Lian raised his eyebrows, "Is it Santa Claus or Santa Claus?"

"Hmm...it's Santa Claus."

"Then I don't want a gift, can someone who wants to give a gift?"

Jiang also thought about it, and said, "But you already have people who give gifts, so you can only choose to ask for gifts."

Xie Lian's heart was itchy to be teased, and she stretched out her hand to pull him into her arms and kissed him hard, and only let him go when he had trouble breathing.

"What gift did you prepare?" Xie Lian slid his finger restlessly, "Show it to my husband."

"No, the gift can only be seen tomorrow."

Xie Lian smiled, and took out an origami ring from the side of the pillow as if by magic, "Then show you my gift."

"Ah," Jiang Ye opened his eyes wide in surprise, and brought the paper ring over with both hands, "You folded this yourself?" He put the ring on his ring finger, raised his hand, and looked at the light again, "Thank you!" Lian, I really like this."

Xie Lian curled his lips, "The presents are over, now it's time to do something serious."

In the middle of the night, Xie Lian heard the people around her get up rustlingly, walked to the head of her bed, and returned to bed after working for a while.Xie Lian pretended to sleep for a long time, and he didn't open his eyes until Jiang Ye lay on the pillow again and let out a steady breathing sound.

He reached out for the gift in the Christmas stocking. It was a picture book. The protagonists were him and Jiang Ye. He was a knight wielding an epee, and Jiang Ye was a prince caught by a dragon.

Jiang Ye's painting style is warm. In the picture book, the two villains are close and far away. Even though the content is wild and unconstrained, it is a story that belongs to them alone.

Xie Lian has received countless picture books, each of which is carefully placed in the study. They are all memories. When I read them, I feel sour and sweet in my heart, as if reminding them of the happy present and the irony. once.He closed the picture book, lowered his eyes and laughed silently.

Afterwards, Xie Lian took out a small square box from under the pillow, and after opening it, there was a real diamond ring shining inside.

A few hours ago, Jiang Ye was smiling so happily wearing a paper-folded ring. When the ring was accidentally crumpled during the affair, he would cry absently, the ring is broken, the ring is broken.

Xie Lian looked back with a smile, then got off the bed lightly, walked to Jiang Ye's bedside, and carefully put the ring into the Christmas stocking.He dropped a kiss on Jiang Ye's forehead, and then went back to bed and lay down again.

Before going to bed, Xie Lian vaguely thought of the story of the knight and the prince in the picture book.

How can a knight be afraid of dragons and death? He is only afraid that when he wakes up in the morning, he will not see his lover by his side.

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Not sweet hit me! ! ! ! !Merry Christmas + Merry Christmas everyone! ! ! ! ! ! ! !