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?Lu Yuan and Wang Kefei were standing in front of a milk tea shop waiting for Zhou Yanghe.

The custom of the dragon dance in Songcheng has not changed. Before the Lantern Festival, some dragon dance teams set off to go to some individuals or companies for a dance, implying that the business will be more prosperous this year.

The "Baiyelong" came just in time, and the people wearing turbans held lotus lanterns with wooden handles, lotus leaf lanterns and butterfly lanterns, and danced alternately.The last big lotus lantern was turned into a dragon head, the butterfly lantern was turned into a dragon tail, and the other lights were turned into a dragon body. Like a flower dragon soaring into the sky, a large group of people followed behind and chased after it with smiles.

Seeing Lu Yuan standing in front, Zhou Yanghe turned around and said something to Yu Xi, carefully avoiding the flow of people and walking towards Lu Yuan.

Wang Kefei put on his glasses and said to Lu Yuan, "I really don't know why Yu Xi suddenly has such a good relationship with Zhou Yanghe from your class."

Lu Yuan shrugged, with an innocent expression, "Why, are you happy that Ban Hua didn't get along with you?"

What Wang Kefei hates the most is the tone of Lu Yuan's speech. Others think that Lu Yuan is a calm and generous person. Only she, who grew up with this thing, knows that this person is full of bad things, and that skin doesn't know No matter how long, gentle and watery, it is the complete opposite of Lizi.

"Yes, yes, anyway, what are you worrying about if I don't get along with you!"

When Lu Yuan heard Wang Kefei say this, she glanced at her with a half-smile, and the flickering billboard of the milk tea shop behind her seemed to be reflected in her eyes, and she was thrilled when she saw people.

Wang Kefei felt uncomfortable at this glance, and pretended to take off her glasses to wipe them, ignoring her.

Lu Yuan beckoned to Zhou Yanghe.

Her eyes fell on Zhou Yang and holding Yu Xi's hand. The two of them strode forward with no distractions, and stared at each other with a burning gaze. And bloom the same.

It seems that...the relationship is really very good.

She turned her head to look at Wang Kefei who was still cleaning her glasses by herself, and patted the back of the other's head very impolitely, "If you wipe it again, it will crack—" Then she covered her mouth when Wang Kefei was about to swear, He forcefully dragged it to the counter of the milk tea shop, smiled and said to the boss: "Two cups of original flavor, no pearls."

Zhou Yanghe and Yu Xi happened to see Wang Kefei and Lu Yuan fiercely "fighting" together. Wang Kefei took off his glasses and looked very different from the previous school bully. He was very vicious, and Lu Yuan pulled out a bunch of hair that was originally coiled, and it looked messy.

Lu Yuan pursed her lips and seemed to have endured a lot of hard work. Seeing Zhou Yanghe's surprised expression and Yu Xi's uncontrollable laughter, she sighed and stuffed the milk tea the boss had just made into Wang Kefei's arms, "Here, Drink it, don't be angry—”

Wang Kefei picked up her glasses and put them on, held milk tea, straightened her clothes, and muttered: A basket of marinated eggs rolled downhill, and none of them were good.

Lu Yuan pulled her lips with a half-smile.

Yu Xi tugged at Zhou Yanghe's sleeve: "Yanghe, your monitor is a bit different."

Zhou Yanghe nodded, leaned towards Yu Xi, and whispered, "I think so too."

"Hey, Committee Member Zhou, is it true that Little Witch Qin won't come?"

Zhou Yanghe nodded, Lu Yuan took a sip of milk tea and asked, "Do you want to drink it?"

Zhou Yanghe looked at Yu Xi, Yu Xi smiled at her, and waved his hands with crooked eyebrows.

"Lu Yuan, why are you with our class monitor? Did Yang He tell me that you were with some girls in your class?" Yu Xi asked.

"Oh... I was having dinner at Wang Kefei's house today, and her mother asked me to take her out to play, saying that she was afraid that she would be too boring by herself. Originally, she said that she would go to chase the dragon dance team with some of my girls. What about 'Little Blue Dragon'".

"I'm not bored, are you the one who insisted on pulling me out?" Wang Kefei, who was quietly drinking milk tea, became furious again when Lu Yuan said that.

"Hey, hey, you're blaming me again. When you were eating, you heard me saying that you were going out and looked at me pitifully. Can I not soften my heart?!"

Pippi is a golden retriever of Lu Yuan's family.

Seeing Wang Kefei's anger, Zhou Yanghe blushed.

"You are the dog!!!"

The two people in front of them seemed to be fighting again, Yu Xi pulled Zhou Yang and Lu Yuan and said, "We're going to the ancient street, let's take a step first~ We'll meet up later!!"

Before Zhou Yanghe could react, this time he was dragged away by Yu Xi.

Lu Yuan was stunned for a moment, but the two people in front of her disappeared instantly. She patted her forehead with a headache, "The ones who agreed to play together ran away?"

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of Wang Kefei, who she said had the same eyes as the little golden retriever at home. The other party blushed and stood there silently. Even if the light reflected from the glasses, Lu Yuan could guess that she must be very wronged now. , thinking about some things that are gone.

She thought of Wang Kefei's unbearable physique since she was a child, so she could only sigh helplessly, took her hand, and said softly: "Okay, okay, I insisted on going out to play with you, now let's go Ancient Street, huh?"

Surprised by her sudden gentle tone, Wang Kefei nodded.

Lu Yuan smiled and thought: It's still exactly the same as when I was a child, so easy to coax.

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Yu Xi pulled Zhou Yanghe and ran for a few minutes before stopping. Although she told Lu Yuan to go to the ancient street, the street was crowded with people, and she didn't know which direction to go, so she could only look at Zhou Yang for help. and.

Zhou Yanghe was amused by Yu Xi's confused eyes, "There's still a way to go."

Zhou Yanghe is very familiar with this area, unlike Yu Xi, the children who were raised in the wild always know all the alleys like the back of their hands.I used to have unrealistic fantasies, thinking that one day I would find a secret passage, and there would be a mysterious treasure written in a book at the end, and maybe I would think about it for a long time because of how to allocate it, as if I had already got the things, and I was waiting With a wave of your hand, cause the castle to drool over.

As for being covered in spider webs during the treasure hunt, it can only be regarded as an insignificant small obstacle.

"I'll take you there," she hooked Yu Xi, "take the 'secret passage'".

When Zhou Yanghe smiled, there was a small dimple on the left cheek. Standing in the brightly lit street, Yu Xi could see it very clearly. She liked this dimple very much, and couldn't help but want to reach out to poke it. Zhou Yanghe mistook it as a response and held back.

She was a little caught off guard by the sudden stretching out of her hand, and almost fell down. The shiny hair under the lamp looked like a waving ribbon. Zhou Yanghe quickly supported her, "Eh? Don't be afraid, I won't take you away." lost."

Zhou Yanghe's hair has grown a lot, almost to the shoulders. When he hurriedly supported Yu Xi, Yu Xi could feel the other's soft and fluffy hair brushing against his cheeks, and the lips flashing past in front of his eyes, smooth and bright , the corners of the mouth are slightly raised upwards.Zhou Yanghe had a saponin smell on her body, she couldn't describe it, but she felt very relieved when she smelled it.

Yu Xi recalled the days when she was a child in her grandmother's small courtyard with her aunt, and her grandmother took her to learn about the saponin tree, and talked about a lot of medicinal properties, all she could remember after so many years was the smell.

"Yanghe, you smell so strong of saponins today~"

Zhou Yanghe was stopped by her sudden question, and it took him a long time to answer: "Probably this dress has soaked for too long..." She was a little embarrassed, and spoke in a low voice.

"Then you always use saponins?"

"Ah."

"Why don't you use laundry detergent?"

"Because it's not very troublesome to make soap lotion, and you can also wash your hair, and I'm quite interested."

Yu Xi suddenly became interested, "Isn't it super easy to use!!!"

"Well...it's okay." Zhou Yanghe didn't know how to answer, "I'll teach you how to do it when I have a chance in the future."

Yu Xi was so happy that his eyes were bent into moons.

"Aren't you going to the ancient street? Let's go—"

"Good good."

Yu Xi grabs Zhou Yanghe's arms, the corners of his mouth are still curled up.

She felt that since she knew Zhou Yanghe, she had entered a completely different world from before. This person carried many small stories that were rare among her peers, making Zhou Yanghe an indescribable person. , that is pure and multi-faceted, that is silent and vivid, like the lights of thousands of houses are hidden in her eyes, making her understand everything, but she is stubborn and refuses to speak.

"I can definitely become different good friends with Yanghe." Yu Xi said to himself in his heart, and couldn't help leaning a little on Zhou Yanghe, tilting his head and smiling when the other side looked suspiciously at him.

The "secret passage" mentioned by Zhou Yanghe is a small alley that is crowded when two people walk side by side. He said that the alley is still too far-fetched. Small flying insects circled around the lantern, casting thin, invisible moving shadows on the low loess wall.

A wind came in from the end of the passage, and the innermost lantern was lifted, shaking and making a "bang bang" sound.

Yu Xi was a little scared and hugged Zhou Yanghe's arm.

Seeing Yu Xi like this, Zhou Yanghe laughed, it seemed that Yu Xi's fear was more exaggerated than she imagined, "If you are afraid, rely on me," she felt that her words were too unkind , quickly added, "See if the end is very bright, that's the ancient street."

Yu Xi followed her gaze and saw that the end of the road was indeed extremely bright, but her fear did not disappear in the slightest, on the contrary she became more clingy to Zhou Yang, for fear that she would leave her and run away.

Zhou Yanghe could only stretch out his arms to embrace Yu Xi, but Yu Xi was half a head taller than her, her movement was extremely strange.

Yu Xi didn't take it seriously, leaning his head on Zhou Yang and his shoulders, wishing he could close his eyes and not look at the road.

When she was about to walk to the end, Yu Xi suddenly found a small recessed door under a lantern, and the door was wide open. Her curiosity overcame her fear for a moment, and she glanced inside.

There is a courtyard inside, and there is a square table at the other end of the courtyard. An old woman with her hair in a bun is lighting a lamp to fold things in front of the table. The paper in her hand reflects light and looks like tinfoil.

As if hearing the sound of walking, the old woman glanced out the door, Yu Xi was startled by her sudden turning of her head, and hugged Zhou Yanghe.

Zhou Yanghe immediately turned his head and saw a gray-haired one-eyed mother-in-law, but smiled and nodded to the mother-in-law, and said: "Grandma Lu, happy Lantern Festival."

This sentence was spoken in a dialect, Zhou Yanghe's voice was clear and clear, with a sense of calm, Yu Xi felt that it was too much fuss to compare himself with Zhou Yanghe, so he hurriedly withdrew from her embrace.

"Hey, it's the daughter of the old Zhou's family. Why did you go here today?" The old woman's voice sounded very hoarse.

"Take your classmates to the ancient street. The street is too crowded. It's fast here."

"I'm leaving first, I'll see you another day..."

Yu Xi stood aside and listened to Zhou Yanghe and the mother-in-law finished talking in dialect, and when the other party pulled her out of the ancient street, she let out a long sigh of relief, and asked, "Yanghe, how do you know that mother-in-law?" , she is a bit scary, she is folding things with candles."

Zhou Yanghe took Yu Xi's hand and patted it, "When I was very young, she went to my house to buy rice. When I was young, I sent it to my dad a few times. In recent years, I have been doing it."

"Her family's old man passed away on the Lantern Festival a few years ago. Isn't it our custom to fold gold ingots?"

"Grandma Lu is very nice. I gave rice a few times, and she left me with a bowl of egg custard, which was very delicious."

She looked at Yu Xi's shocked look and felt a little guilty.Yu Xi didn't know much about some ancient customs, and her parents were teachers, so they were very strict. She probably never imagined that these winding paths would exist.

Zhou Yanghe was a little frustrated. She felt that there seemed to be a huge gap between herself and Yu Xi, separating the two worlds. She wanted to bring Yu Xi into her own world, but it was extremely difficult.

Yu Xi seemed to be aware of Zhou Yanghe's sudden depression, "Oh, it's still quite interesting, but it's just too scary, I'm afraid you'll leave me there and run away."

She saw Zhou Yanghe shook her head solemnly, "No, Yu Xi can always hold me."

Maybe Zhou Yanghe's gaze was too hot, Yu Xi tilted his head a little uncomfortably, "Okay, okay, I believe you, we're all in the ancient street, now, take me to play—"

The ancient street is composed of ancient dwellings of Huizhou style architecture, decorated with lights for festivals, and wooden tables are placed at the entrance of some snack shops, full of people.

"Then let's go to that Chao Shou shop, shall we?" Zhou Yanghe pointed to a thriving shop on the right and asked Yu Xi.

Yu Xi walked ahead, leaving only the back of his head for Zhou Yanghe, without looking back.

Zhou Yanghe knew that Yu Xi must be familiar with the snacks here, so he didn't bother to expose her.

"Ah! I know, let's go eat—" Yu Xi just wanted to turn around and say to Zhou Yanghe, when an uncle riding a tricycle rushed towards her.

Zhou Yanghe was startled, and hurried to pull her, but he couldn't reach her, so he could only watch helplessly as Yu Xi was knocked to the ground.