Cartilage [Republic of China]

, was about to run back.The tone outside the door changed, and there was a big "Ah-sneeze".He stunned his foot, and the other slipper also flew out.Asked in surprise: "Zhu Yanren?"

There was another rustling outside, and then suddenly there was no movement.Yi Jiage thought for a while, and separated himself from the tree.The left foot and the right foot wore slippers backwards, and half a big foot stepped on the snow water.He arrived at the door in a few strides, leaning against the wall and looking out, Zhu Yanren was squatting behind the other door, leaning against the wall.The hands and feet were all retracted into the clothes, and the only exposed cheek was flushed, like the first snowman built by a lively child when it first snowed, it was extremely festive.

9. Gifts

Snowman himself couldn't detect the joy of others, so he touched his nose again with his sleeve.He buried his face in his arms in a daze.

Yi Jiage stretched out his hand and shook the iron door, he shook it with great measure, only the two of them could hear it, it didn't disturb the neighbors, and it didn't wake up the servant: "Go home?"

Zhu Yanren glared at him with red eyes, then went to look elsewhere.Yi Jiage walked to the other side, stretched out his hand from the gap in the iron door to provoke him, and pushed him: "Why don't you knock on the door, can I really not let you come back?"

"My sister can't be found." Zhu Yanren spoke with a weng voice, and his nose was blocked by fever.Yi Jiage wanted to laugh at him, and then tease him.While he was not paying attention, he opened the door to fish him in. He was about to make a move when he heard Zhu Yanren say: "I really can't find it."

The tone of his words interrupted him, maybe it was because the snowy night was too cold, which made his sadness easily capture him along the snow.Yi Jiage opened the door and walked out, wanting to comfort him, but didn't know where to start.He stroked Zhu Yanren's soft hair: "Go in, it's too cold."

Zhu Yanren stretched out his hand and knocked his hand away, then raised his face and looked at him: "To tell the truth." He paused, "Ah!" and then asked, "Do you know why my sister suddenly Walk."

"I don't know." Yi Jiage was still gentle, looking at him with a smile.

"Then I'll keep looking," he shrank his shoulders as he said, his eyelids were fighting to droop.Yi Jiage laughed at him: "Squat here and wait for her to come back?"

Zhu Yanren's eyelids closed heavily, then opened abruptly, closed again, opened again, and so on.Yi Jiage grabbed his waist and dragged him up: "Let's go, I'll help you find it tomorrow, and go to sleep tonight."

Zhu Yanren leaned into his arms and let him hold him, complaining aggrievedly: "I am the only man in the family, I should take good care of my father and sister." As he spoke, he picked out a tear from his eye and hung it on his eyelashes. fell asleep.

When he woke up again, he didn't know when it was.It was broad daylight, but it seemed to be on fire, flushed, like a bride's flushed face.He blinked his eyes, and his ears became clear. He heard a firework explode outside with a sound of "Tong!", and a little bit of sparks fell down. He was very happy, and there were vaguely children running and making trouble.Counting it, he has lived here for more than three months, and he has become half of the Yi family, but there is no news of his sister.

He suddenly felt that he was empty, his father and sister were gone, and his mother was on the other side of the mountain and sea, so he might never miss him again.He was left alone, suddenly panicked, and he was going to disappear, and that couldn't happen.He was going out and looking for a job, and doing it well, so that he could save money for a paper looking for his sister.Before he finds a job, he has to temporarily stay here with Yi Jiage.

While thinking, while dressing and putting on his pants, he heard someone outside thumping upstairs, and then gently opened the door of his room.Zhu Yanren subconsciously stopped listening to the voice.After seeing his head, he felt relieved, and slowly stretched his legs to put on his underpants.

Yi Jiage came up to pull him: "Come on, they are setting off fireworks, let's go too."

Zhu Yanren hurriedly put on his clothes and was dragged out by him. When he reached the door, he saw red couplets pasted on the lintel and both sides.He pointed and asked, "Is it going to be posted today?"

"Tonight is New Year's Eve!" Yi Jiage was very happy, pointing to the couplets and showing him: "This is all written by Ji Yun. We all said that if he had the opportunity to study when he was young, he would definitely be a gentleman."

When he said this, Zhu Yanren looked at him curiously, but he stopped abruptly, not mentioning his childhood with Ji Yun.Going further outside, Zhu Yanren found that the entire Yi mansion was full of joy. Under the statue of Jesus in the hall, there was a New Year's picture doll holding a carp posted nondescriptly.

But this vulgar joy made Zhu Yanren very happy too. He hasn't celebrated the New Year for nearly ten years.The Nian in my impression seems to be the same, with firecrackers and naughty children everywhere, as well as decent adults and auspicious words.

"Ji Yun!" Yi Jiage beckoned to the yard: "Go and make a phone call to ask Tailor Zhang to come too." He compared to Zhu Yanren: "Make him a new dress too."

After hearing what he said, Ji Yun turned around and went to do it. Zhu Yanren was stunned, and then a little unhappy: "I don't want it, I just wear this outfit during the New Year."

Yi Jiage ignored his words, and grabbed his wrist to go to the balcony on the second floor to watch the servants set off fireworks.Looking up, Zhu Yanren told him: "Sister must have had an accident. My birthday is coming soon, she will not forget. Even if it is urgent, she will wait until my birthday is over before leaving."

He was a little embarrassed to speak. After watching for a while, he found that Yi Jiage was still observing the fireworks with great interest.He also looked up casually: "I'll move out as soon as I find a job." A firework flew out with the second half of his sentence "嗖". Yi Jiage didn't hear clearly, so he turned his head, There is a happy smile on the corners of the eyes and brows.

Zhu Yanren's heart moved, they were very close to each other, but turning their head suddenly like this, they were too close.But Yi Jiage didn't think so, so he was embarrassed to say it, but he felt that the two men were so weird, but he couldn't tell what was weird, his chest was hot and stuffy, and his palms were sweating, who knew why?

"I said, I'll move out after a while." He broke Yi Jiage's shoulder and tiptoed into his ear.Yi Jiage pulled away from him for a while, but the smile on his face suddenly disappeared, as if he was very angry: "Going?"

Zhu Yanren was taken aback by his face-changing, but he didn't expect him to turn his face like a book, and suddenly he was extremely depressed: "I was going to leave. But stay here for a while."

"Then what benefits will you give me?" Yi Jiage leaned against the railing, putting on a businessman's face.Zhu Yanren was so guilty by what he said, he didn't dare to look at him anymore, and went to watch the fireworks outside: "I will pay you back in the future. Otherwise,"

"Otherwise, what?" Yi Jiage's anger suddenly surged up, and he was not forgiving.Zhu Yanren clenched his fists and slammed it on the railing: "Otherwise I will recognize you as a brother, and I will take care of you in the future. But," his face blushed, and he felt that he was too disappointing, but it didn't matter who asked him to live under the fence. Skill: "But I can't change my surname."

"I have a secret to tell you." Yi Jiage suddenly stopped being angry, and put on a brotherly gesture. He gently stroked Zhu Yanren's head: "Is your birthday coming soon? I have a gift for you." for you."

Zhu Yanren's birthday is very big, come to the New Year's day.They were very close again, this time Yi Jiage also felt it, so ambiguous, so perverted.They exchanged breath with each other, even the air became warm, it was not as natural as saying it but as if the other party should know, someone said: "Tomorrow."

Yi Jiage lowered his head gently, Zhu Yanren's face blushed, and he suddenly felt pushing him away: "It's wrong for us to do this, it's too weird." The temperature suddenly turned cold, but Yi Jiage remembered something, but He wasn't sure: "Your birthday is on New Year's?"

Zhu Yanren nodded because he didn't understand, Yi Jiage raised his head, and then confirmed another thing.

At that time, he was about ten years old, and he was still the stature of a cigarette.Squeeze in the middle of a group of children and go to the west of the city to share a bite of cake.That day happened to be the first day of the Lunar New Year, and I heard that a certain celebrity in the city had recently converted to Christianity and wanted to use his child's birthday to do good deeds.Said to add a happy new year and birthday.

He bit his finger and sat at the gate of the city. Seeing the young master being embraced by a handsome foreigner, he blinked and was stunned.

He had never seen such a beautiful child.It's not a good idea, but it's different from everything he saw when he opened his eyes.It doesn't look like a flower, it doesn't look like a tree, it doesn't look like anything, and it looks like everything at the same time, like pastries in a pastry shop, and like a doll hidden in a tall house, so clean and beautiful.

The child was still in his eyes, hanging his head.The child's shadow stumbled from the sky and fell to the ground, and it became Zhu Yanren, looking at him puzzled. "It's nothing, I rarely like anyone." He said, like a confession, just a confession, he thought, and said it: "You are the only one, I have liked it for a long time. So don't leave."

Zhu Yanren turned his head quickly and looked at the people who had already set off fireworks on the ground and congratulated each other: "But this is not right, and it shouldn't be. We two men..."

Yi Jiage is noncommittal, he thinks, at least for now, he must be able to control Zhu Yanren.Zhu Yanren and many other things are just small things in his heart, which are controllable and full of excitement.

Zhu Yanren was still talking, but Ji Yun suddenly appeared, and he ignored Zhu Yanren's existence.I went directly to Yi Jiage: "Boss," Yi Jiage pointed down, interrupting him to signal to continue.

After a while, the two came up again, Yi Jiage brought Zhu Yanren