round spring

A good morning is enough to offset countless nights.

——An Yuan's Diary

On the morning of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, Shen Xingchun and An Yuan finished posting the Spring Festival couplets early.

Shen Qiu yelled that he wanted to eat roasted sweet potatoes, grandma asked Shen Xingchun to go to the cellar to get some roasted sweet potatoes.

Shen Xingchun responded and went out, An Yuan went out with him, "Brother Chun, I'll go with you."

Shen Xingchun said "No", An Yuan still followed him.

Grandma's house now has a refrigerator, but there are too many dishes to store in winter, and she still habitually puts many things in the cellar outside.

Shen Xingchun moved the ladder into the cellar, and An Yuan supported the ladder on top.

After Shen Xingchun went down, he saw that An Yuan's feet were already on the ladder, and Shen Xingchun yelled at An Yuan from below: "Just wait for me on the top."

An Yuan didn't listen to him, it had already been down for several knots, Shen Xingchun was afraid that he would fall, so he kept holding on to the ladder and waited for him.

An Yuan didn't go down when there were still two steps to the bottom, turned over, leaned his back on the ladder, opened his hands and wanted to jump down, "Brother, pick me up."

"Don't jump, be careful of falling." Before Shen Xingchun finished speaking, An Yuan had already jumped down.

When Shen Xingchun spoke, he opened his hands, An Yuan jumped directly on Shen Xingchun's body, wrapping his arms around his neck.

Shen Xingchun naturally held An Yuan's thighs with both hands, fearing that he would fall, so he even bumped up while holding him.

Shen Xingchun's first feeling was that the smell on An Yuan's body was much better than the smell of the traditional Chinese medicine he had been drinking these days. This smell made him a little greedy, with a faint milky smell and a little bit of grassy plant smell.

The second feeling is that An Yuan is really too thin. An Yuan is now 1.7 meters [-]. With this height, she doesn't seem to weigh much in her arms.

He just wanted to put An Yuan down, but An Yuan put his arms around his neck tightly, lowered his head and sniffed his neck, frowned and asked, "Brother Chun, are you smoking?"

The tip of An Yuan's nose was attached to the side of Shen Xingchun's neck, and when he spoke, a faint breath sprayed on the skin of his neck and behind his ears.

Shen Xingchun felt a tingling sensation starting from his neck, and then extending downward and deeper. He swallowed, and asked, "Does it smell?"

"Although it smells like traditional Chinese medicine, it still smells like smoke." An Yuan lowered his head and smelled it again.

"Maybe it's because grandpa smokes, and there's a little smell of smoke on it," Shen Xingchun finished speaking, then pinched Anyuan's thigh with his fingers, "Come down."

An Yuan jumped off him, stomped her feet, and turned to get sweet potatoes, "Brother Chun, how many?"

Shen Xingchun looked at An Yuan bowing his head and seriously picking sweet potatoes, like a normal person, he almost forgot that he was picking sweet potatoes.

Although it was daytime, the sight in the cellar was not very good, the light from the cellar entrance shone on An Yuan's back, An Yuan didn't hear Shen Xingchun's answer, so he asked again.

Shen Xingchun replied to An Yuan in a muffled voice: "Bring more."

An Yuan nodded, picked up a few bigger ones and put them in her palm.

Shen Xingchun took a few small ones and said, "The small ones are easier to bake, so give them to Xiaoqiu."

Grandma is steaming buns in the big pot, and the firewood in the stove is just right for roasting sweet potatoes.

A few small ones were ripe first, and the sweet potato smell was very strong, Shen Xingchun took out a package from it, wrapped it in a newspaper, and handed it to An Yuan.

The freshly baked sweet potatoes were very hot, and An Yuan felt hot even when he held them in the palm of his hand through the newspaper.

Seeing that An Yuan's fingers were turning red, Shen Xingchun took away the sweet potato from An Yuan's hand and said, "Wait a while, I'll peel it for you, it's almost ready to eat after peeling."

After he finished speaking, he tilted his head and coughed twice, An Yuan sat on the small bench with his arms on his knees, watching Shen Xingchun peel the sweet potatoes for him.

When Shen Qiu came back from having enough fun outside, Shen Xingchun had just finished peeling one and handed it to An Yuan.

Seeing Shen Qiu come in, An Yuan blew on the sweet potato again, and waited until it was completely gone before telling Shen Qiu, "Eat slowly."

"Thank you, Brother Yuaner." After Shen Qiu finished speaking, she took the sweet potato and sat down in front of An Yuan, leaning against his arms, and ate the sweet potato in small bites.

"Brother Chun peeled the skin for you." Shen Xingchun said beside him.

"Brother Yuan'er gave it to me," Shen Qiu said, "I didn't watch you strip it for me."

"You little heartless." Shen Xingchun nodded her,

Shen Qiu giggled twice, and Shen Xingchun peeled off another one for An Yuan.

One big and one small were eating sweet potatoes with newspapers in their hands, chatting happily while eating.

When Lin Hao came, Shen Xingchun had just peeled the third one, so he took it out of his hand and took a big bite. It was so hot that he hissed and said with his tongue that the roasted sweet potatoes were really delicious, and said: "In the yard It smells right there."

An Yuan thought in his heart that it must be delicious, could his brother bake it deliciously?

"You have a good nose," Shen Xingchun asked after finishing speaking, "When did you come back?"

Lin Hao took another bite of the sweet potato, found a small bench to sit down, and said after swallowing, "I came back last night, and I have been staying at my mother-in-law's house for the past few days. I came here just after I woke up this morning. I didn't even eat it."

Shen Xingchun held the fire stick in his hand and pointed to the edge of the steaming pot, "You take the freshly steamed buns in the pot by yourself."

Lin Hao held the sweet potato in one hand, lifted the lid of the pot with the other, and took two buns from it. The buns were too hot, so he put them directly in the bowl next to him, and asked, "Do you two eat?"

Shen Xingchun told An Yuan not to eat, they just had breakfast.

Lin Hao turned his head and asked Shen Qiu who was eating sweet potatoes, "Does Xiaoqiu eat buns?"

"I eat sweet potatoes." Shen Qiu showed Lin Hao the sweet potatoes in his hand.

Lin Hao directly covered the pot and sat back on the small bench.

Shen Xingchun flipped through the remaining sweet potatoes, An Yuan bent down and looked inside, there were three more inside, but they were all too big, probably not fully baked.

He broke off half of his sweet potato and handed it to Shen Xingchun, "Brother Chun, eat mine first."

Shen Xingchun shook his head and said, "I'll eat it after baking it."

An Yuan didn't take back his hand, and handed the sweet potato in Shen Xingchun's eyes again, and delivered it directly to his mouth.

Shen Xingchun lowered his eyes, lowered his head, took a bite, and took the sweet potato in his hand.

Lin Hao kept flicking his eyes back and forth, watching their interaction, he was sitting next to An Yuan, moved the bench to Shen Xingchun's side, bumped Shen Xingchun's shoulder with his shoulder, and gave him a question, "What's the matter with you and Xiao Yuaner?" " look.

Shen Xingchun ignored Lin Hao and said nothing, with his eyelids drooping, he kept turning sweet potatoes with a stick.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Lin Hao moved to An Yuan's side again, and when he looked at An Yuan, his face was full of question marks.

Holding sweet potatoes in his hands, An Yuan just smiled at him without saying anything.

Seeing their reaction, Lin Hao knew that there was still no progress, and sighed silently in his heart, unable to figure out what was going on.

"Xiaoyuaner, when are you going back?" Lin Hao asked him while eating roasted sweet potatoes.

"Let's do it after the Chinese New Year," An Yuan said, "The exact time has not yet been determined."

"After the sixth day," Lin Hao said, "I'm getting married on the sixth day. You and Dachun will be my best men. Brother Feng and Yu Yang are the other two best men."

"Brother Hao, are you getting married?" An Yuan was a little startled.

"I told your brother before, and asked him if you would come back this year, and he said he didn't know if you would come back," Lin Hao said with a smile, "My wife is pregnant, hey, I'm going to be a father, It’s also the date I just booked a few days ago, and I’m going to send you a message to say it.”

"Congratulations Brother Hao, double happiness, Double Happiness, Brother Hao is really fast, he is going to be a father."

"My daughter-in-law said at the beginning that we will get married in two years, but I want to get married with her. I wanted to get married when I was in college. Now that I have graduated for more than two years, I think even more." Lin Hao glanced back Shen Qiu, Shen Qiu was playing by himself, didn't notice them, turned his head and lowered his voice.

"My daughter-in-law joked before that she would get married if she was pregnant. Now she is really pregnant. It has been three months, and the doctor said it is very healthy."

Lin Hao stretched out three fingers, and shook them at Shen Xingchun and An Yuan. After he finished speaking, he ate the remaining half of sweet potato in two bites. He sat there for a long time and continued in a low voice: "You don't know, my wife I want to marry her, we have been together for almost ten years since high school..."

Shen Xingchun and An Yuan smiled. They all knew about Lin Hao and Li Ru. At first, Lin Hao changed schools to chase Li Ru, and went to a high school in other places by himself. Fortunately, the result turned out to be good. Now They were all very happy for him, and said "Congratulations" to each other.

Lin Hao said cheerfully: "After the new year, you two will help me in the past. There are a lot of preparations before the wedding. Although the time is a bit rushed, there is nothing missing. I prepared the bride price several years ago. , I originally wanted to do it where we both work, but our relatives and friends are basically here in my hometown, and I didn't want my wife to make trouble, so I just did it in my hometown."

When Lin Hao spoke, he couldn't hide his excitement, and spit on his face.

Shen Xingchun moved to the side in disgust, and said to An Yuan: "He has told me this eight hundred times, and every time he spittles, he can feel the spittle through the phone."

Lin Hao said "Damn" from the side, raised his foot and kicked Shen Xingchun's calf and said, "If you have the ability, you should find a partner, and then you can shake me as much as you want, you are purely envious, you I'm jealous that I have a daughter-in-law and you don't."

Shen Xingchun smiled and said to him twice, then moved to the side.

Lin Hao is a person who is in high spirits every happy event, and the more he talks, the more he talks, "Xiao Yuaner, take a look, is your brother's eyes full of jealousy, don't let people tell."

Lin Hao's words came to this point, and he didn't hold back, he asked directly, and it was the two of them who asked, "My business is settled, what about you two?"

Shen Xingchun fished out another sweet potato, and stuffed it to Lin Hao while it was still warm, "Eat sweet potatoes, even eating sweet potatoes won't stop your mouth."

An Yuan just smiled beside him and didn't speak.

Lin Hao was holding a big sweet potato and a steamed stuffed bun, and asked Shen Xingchun while eating, "Dachun, you haven't dated anyone in all these years? Why not? Do you have someone in your heart?"

Lin Hao said half to Shen Xingchun, and half to An Yuan.

Shen Xingchun said: "If you don't get along, you don't get along. There are so many reasons."

Lin Hao listened to Shen Xingchun's words with a bit of resentment, he turned to An Yuan and asked, "What about Xiao Yuan, have you been outside for so many years and still haven't found a date?"

An Yuan lowered his head and took a mouthful of sweet potatoes, shook his head, looked at Shen Xingchun's side face from the corner of his eye, and spoke in a soft but clear voice, "No, I'm still myself, I have no one, never have, my brother has no one. I don't know the reason for the object, I have nowhere, it's because I have someone in my heart."

After An Yuan finished speaking, he suddenly wanted to take it back. He originally only wanted to say the first half of the sentence, but he couldn't take it back after he had said it all, so he just kept his head down and ate a mouthful of sweet potatoes.

Shen Xingchun's throat was still a little itchy, he coughed twice, and with a shake of the fire stick in his hand, he turned out another sweet potato inside, and threw out two pieces of red-hot charcoal.

The charcoal bounced directly on the back of his hand, and Shen Xingchun couldn't dodge it in time, he was burned suddenly, his hand shrank from the pain, the stick fell to the ground, and the other hand patted the back of the burned hand vigorously.

An Yuan directly dropped the sweet potato in his hand, grabbed Shen Xingchun's arm and walked out, "Why are you so careless?"

Shen Xingchun didn't speak, An Yuan took him out and took a basin of cold water to wash him for a long time.

Shen Xingchun only felt that the back of his hand was frozen by the cold water so that he could no longer feel the pain, only felt that it was cold, his bones were cold, An Yuan kept pinching his hand and rushing.

He twitched his fingers, and An Yuan squeezed harder, his tone was a bit cold, "Don't move, just charge for a while."

"It's too cold." Shen Xingchun said.

"Be patient." An Yuan still held her hand.

Shen Xingchun didn't move, An Yuan washed him for several minutes, carefully looked at the back of his scalded hand: "It's still a little red, put some burn ointment on it."

An Yuan dragged Shen Xingchun wherever he went, and he obediently followed them. When he came out after applying the burn ointment, Lin Hao was still eating buns, looking at them and smiling.

When Shen Xingchun came out, he passed by Lin Hao's feet and kicked him, "You're still laughing, don't you care if you're burning?"

"Someone cares." Lin Hao raised his eyes and glanced at An Yuan, "I'm not needed here, my concern is superfluous."