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A bit of beard stubble was itchy, and he quickly grabbed the man's mischievous chin in his hands, and lightly bit his lips.

The two huddled together in the crowd for a while, and finally heard the sound of the opening music in the distance.There was a commotion among the crowd, and they moved closer to the vantage point along the parade. The opening with a wide view that Xiao Qing and the others originally occupied was quickly crowded with people.

The United States is a country of immigrants. Silicon Valley, a place where high-tech companies gather together, gathers people from all over the world and of different ethnicities. Multicultural features are particularly prominent here.Some of the floats passing by represented a country, some represented a culture, and some even just represented a special belief—for example, a carload of people walking towards Xiao Qing and the others pretended to be in various ways. Vegetable vegan floats.No matter what kind of work these people are usually doing, at this moment, they are dressed up, put everything behind them, and perform hard for the cultural origin on which they grew up.

The floats with different characteristics passed by one by one, stopping for a while every ten meters. People on the car sang or danced, and danced with excitement. Some phalanxes with professional performers attracted all around The enthusiastic audience cheered and applauded without hesitation.

Near midnight, on the beach not far away, fireworks rose into the sky, and the countdown began on the big screen in the central square. Excited people joined the counting ranks with loud voices.The numbers were reset to zero, and amidst the boiling crowd, large expanses of fireworks illuminated this corner of the world like daylight.

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FIRST

KISS

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YEAR!" Qi Hao held Xiao Qing's face and shouted in his ear.

"Okay!" Xiao Qing also shouted in his ear, holding Qi Hao's face in his hands, closing his eyes and slowly approaching.

"Hollis—"

The shout exploded in their ears, and the two hurriedly followed the sound to see a muscular, naked-chested, dark-skinned young man running towards them, with Maori grass skirts flying up and down.

"Qi Xiang..." When Qi Hao saw this man, his eyes widened in disbelief. Before he finished speaking, he was embraced by this excited Maori boy, and then kissed him hard on the forehead first. Then he held Qi Hao's face and kissed him intimately.

After pasting the nose, the Maori boy grinned, turned his head to look at Xiao Qing, and asked in English, "Who is he?"

Seeing Xiao Qing's dumbfounded expression, Qi Hao came back to his senses, raised his hand and pushed the Maori boy aside, pulled Xiao Qing and said, "This is my younger brother!" Then he turned around and yelled at the Maori boy Said: "How did you make such a ghost!"

This Maori boy is Qi Hao's half-brother, Qi Xiang.Before, Qi Hao always thought that he went to Hawaii for vacation with his parents, but he didn't expect that he would stay and participate in the New Year's Eve performance with his local classmates.As for why they pretended to be Maori, in Qi Xiang's own words: "They don't have enough people in New Zealand!"

Although the way of appearance is too weird, but in this carnival night, this unrestrained younger brother quickly got acquainted with Xiao Qing.At this moment, the two were sitting on the beach chatting, and Qi Hao was sent to a nearby temporary bar to buy beer.

"Tonight is really a miracle night! You just suddenly appeared in front of me like that, my God, I couldn't believe that I saw my brother!" The Maori boy who took off the Maori headgear sighed to Xiao Qing. I tried my best to speak Chinese, but my vocabulary was really limited, so I finally gave up resisting and spoke back to English freely.

"Didn't your brother tell you?" Xiao Qing asked.

Qi Xiang shrugged his shoulders and said: "We are not so close brothers, after all we have different mothers, and he was already a teenager when I was born, we didn't spend much time together."

Xiao Qing said, "But you seem to have a pretty good relationship."

Qi Xiang said: "My brother is actually pretty good, although he often ignores me."

Xiao Qing said, "Then how do you know he is good?"

Qi Xiang said: "He lived with us for almost a year before he went to college. I was young at that time, but I knew he was my brother and I always wanted to play with him, but he always ignored me, so For a while I was terrified of him.

"Then one time, my parents were not at home, and my brother took me out by car... I don't remember what I was doing, but the car broke down on the way, so we had to walk home. It was far from home, and I really I couldn’t walk anymore, and I didn’t dare to cry. I was afraid that my brother would abandon me. But he didn’t. That day he kept walking with my back on his back, telling me stories while walking, and bought me hot dogs and ice cream. really tasty."

"I will never forget the taste of ice cream that day!" Qi wanted to say this, licking his mouth in aftertaste, and then said, "He didn't pay much attention to me when I got home, but I know my brother is a worthy person. A trustworthy person has a delicate heart and will give a lot in silence. He has a kind of -- um... the implicit romance unique to Chinese people! I think you, as his lover, can definitely feel it!"

Xiao Qing's mind flashed back to the sensual elephant seal beach earlier, flicking his nose and slapping his nose, and nodded with difficulty, thinking very depressed, brother, do you have any misunderstandings about romance...

When Qi Hao came back, Qi Xiang had already been dragged away by his Maori companions for a carnival.The two snuggled up at the corner of the beach and drank two bottles of beer with the sea breeze and the carnival music not far away.

"Let's go back to sleep." Qi Hao stroked Xiao Qing's hair and said.

"Okay, let's go." Xiao Qing leaned against his arms and raised his head, squinted his eyes to look at him, and suddenly let out a "puchi" laugh.

"What are you laughing at?" Qi Hao asked puzzled.

Xiao Qing turned over and sat up on his knees, pressed Qi Hao's shoulders, leaned into his ear and asked, "Have you brought the medicine?"

"What medicine?" Qi Hao was at a loss.

"It's the medicine your mother bought for you." Xiao Qing said, blinking at him.

Qi Hao's face became hot all of a sudden, without saying a word, he picked up the guy in front of him and carried him on his shoulder, before walking away.

"Ah—" Xiao Qing couldn't help but exclaimed.

Qi Hao raised his hand and patted his butt, angrily said: "Xiao Qing! My brother will give you a big gift tonight!"

(32)

After the two returned from vacation in the United States, they rolled into the same bed tacitly, and officially started a real cohabitation life.It's just that after a few days of being sticky, Qi Hao reluctantly plunged back into work.The countdown to the conference schedule after the Spring Festival has begun, and the entire GoGoWIDE company is doing pre-mass production tests for an upcoming self-driving supercomputing chip.

Apart from making some preparations for the press conference after the Spring Festival, Xiao just goes to the company to handle some routine work every day, and has been quite leisurely for a while.In contrast, Qi Hao was in a completely different state - worked overtime for more than a week, went out early and returned late every day, and was basically exhausted when he got home, and fell asleep without saying a few words while hugging Xiao Qing .

Seeing that he was so busy, Xiao Qing couldn't help but feel distressed. In the morning, he specially set an alarm clock to get up to buy breakfast, make coffee, and sometimes make a simple breakfast by himself.Qi Hao yelled at the beginning as if he was flattered. You must know that Xiao Qing is a person who is quite talented in bed, and his working hours are very flexible. After moving here, he is basically a qualified Difficulty getting up.

Therefore, when Qi Hao saw Xiao Qing standing at the dining table carefully peeling a boiled egg for the first time, the impact of that scene can be imagined.After Mr. Qi woke up for a second, he was so excited that he pressed Mr. Xiao on the sofa with gratitude and stripped him naked.So, Mr. Xiao fell asleep until noon after eating breakfast that day.

After lunch, Xiao Qing lazily went to the company.It wasn't until he finished processing the backlog of work emails in the past two days that he found the room reservation confirmation letter from a hotel in Saipan three days ago, and he was a little dazed for a while.To be precise, what he received was a booking reminder from the hotel booking app he had been using, reminding him that the hotel he stayed in last year during the Chinese New Year still had special suites, and he kindly recommended several other suites for him. Home.

The Chinese New Year is very early this year, and the middle of January is approaching New Year's Eve, but he has never asked Qi Hao about the Chinese New Year.I remember that Qi Hao casually mentioned one day that his father's family no longer has any elderly people, so he always went to his grandparents' place during the Chinese New Year.

After so many years, Xiao Qing felt that he had become very indifferent to the matter of Chinese New Year.In the early years, when his parents had just passed away, he was still young, and he always went to his grandpa's house during the Chinese New Year.Although grandpa and grandma always favored him more, he was always lonelier at the moment when relatives and neighbors were reunited with the whole family.Later, when his grandfather and grandmother passed away one after another, he became estranged from his uncle's family intentionally or unintentionally, and it was rare for him to walk around once in a few years.

Later, he met Zhou Yiwen. In their sweetest year, Zhou Yiwen had seriously thought about taking him back to his home in the south for the new year.At that time, Xiao Qing once had some expectations, and those things that he thought he didn't care about suddenly popped up in his mind.He thought, during the Chinese New Year, there is finally a place to "go back".

In the end, things backfired.Xiao Qing still feels like laughing when Zhou Yiwen falters afterwards.He told Xiao Qing that his family disagreed, and he said: "This time I will go back by myself first and get rid of my mother. As long as we both hold on,