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Keeping the old age is a traditional custom.

I was awake at this time last year too, purely from insomnia.

Watching the new year is interesting only when the family is together, and staying up all night by being alone.Besides, on that day, Wanjia lanterns celebrated the reunion, and I was all alone, so I really felt pitiful—I might as well sleep.

The most terrible thing is that I still have insomnia, and I can't sleep at all.

This year is naturally different.

Ayu and Zhang Qiushu are making dumplings, which is a tradition in the northern region.I was watching, and after a while, I received a video of Yan Chaoling.

This guy showed it to me in awe: "I'm making dumplings with my younger brother and sister."

Yan Chaoling was wearing a bluetooth headset, and his mobile phone was placed on the table, probably leaning against something behind it.He rolled out the dumpling wrappers, looking down at the camera.His younger siblings are responsible for making dumplings, and the wrapped dumplings are placed on the table.

I turned the camera to show him the dumplings made by Ayu and Zhang Qiushu: "I have them too."

There are not many dumplings that the three of them need to prepare, and they have already finished making dumplings at the moment.Ayu was boiling water in the kitchen, and Zhang Qiushu packed the remaining noodles and fillings and put them in the refrigerator.

I asked him, "Don't you need to wrap it up?"

Zhang Qiushu explained: "Get up tomorrow morning and make them. Frozen dumplings are not as good as freshly made dumplings, and leftover dumplings are not as good as freshly cooked dumplings."

I was driving the speaker, and Yan Chaoling heard the conversation on my side and asked me: "Your brother?"

I replied: "Brother."

Yan Chaoling nodded, "That's it."

He has to prepare dumplings for the whole family, which is much busier than mine.

When Ayu was cooking dumplings, he boiled another pot of water and boiled a bag of glutinous rice balls.

I kept showing Yan Chaoling with the rear camera on, and now I leaned over and asked Ayu, "There are also glutinous rice balls."

While taking out the cooked dumplings with a colander, Ayu replied: "Well, anyway, I bought ready-made dumplings, so it doesn't take much to cook an extra Lantern Festival."

I smiled and asked: "There are also things you don't know how to pack."

Ayu smiled, "I can't know everything."

"Then what else do you know?"

Ayu replied without thinking: "Have a baby."

This time even Yan Chaoling laughed along.

I said to Yan Chaoling: "I'll help serve the dishes first, let's talk later."

Yan Chaoling thought for a while, "Okay, I'll call you after the New Year's Eve dinner."

"Ok, I will wait for you."

Wherever it is necessary for me to serve the plate, Zhang Qiushu will do it.Ayu greeted me, "Poe, go eat with Zhang Qiushu first."

I followed the good example, and went straight to the dining table with three small bowls and three pairs of chopsticks.

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When Yan Chaoling's family was watching the Spring Festival Gala on the big TV in the living room, he hid in his room and videotaped with me.

Ayu wasn't polite to me either. After confirming that there was someone with me in the air, she dragged Zhang Qiushu back to the bedroom.I have a premonition that the two of them want to use bed sports to welcome the New Year's Eve.

I heard Zhang Qiushu ask Ah Yu: "Aren't you worried?"

Ayu asked back, "What are you worried about?"

Zhang Qiushu: "Poe."

Ayu: "You stare too closely, it's easy to scare the children."

I know Zhang Qiushu is talking about my condition.He was still frightened, and probably still had lingering fears at this time.It's no wonder that today I look at me with a lot of tolerance. It's a completely different person from the one who looked at me 180 times when we first met.

I heard it, and Yan Chaoling might have heard it too.But he probably doesn't know that Poe is my name, and he might not think in this direction.

It was an excuse to say "I think about it" to Tang Hongxi before, but in fact I didn't think about it this afternoon.I'm not the "just ask to have it" kind of person.I'm afraid that if I get it, I will be reluctant to let it go, and I'm even more afraid that I won't get it from the beginning.

I don't really have much confidence in myself.

Yan Chaoling asked me: "What are you going to do next?"

"I don't know either." I went upstairs to my room and nestled on the small bed.I looked at myself in the camera on the screen of my mobile phone, but I could only see part of my face because I was too close—in Yan Chaoling’s view, the entire screen couldn’t fit a face.

Yan Chaoling's voice was very mixed, except for the sound of the Spring Festival Gala on the TV, and the sound of fireworks and firecrackers that gradually became lively as it approached twelve o'clock.

Yan Chaoling smiled helplessly, "Fireworks and firecrackers are not prohibited in my house, they can be set off anywhere, but it is quite noisy."

"It's okay. Just treat me as having some fun and excitement."

Yan Chaoling asked, "Aren't you going to let me go?"

"I don't let it go here, I have to drive to the Bund to release it. My brother and the others are not interested in this."

Yan Chaoling touched his chin, "Wait, I'll show you."

So he happily changed the clothes he was going out, grabbed a handle and shook the flowers, said to his family "I'll go out for a while" and hurried out.

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He put the phone in his pocket, lit the hand-cranked flower before he took it out.The camera was facing the orange flames emitted by the hand-held flowers, Yan Chaoling moved his wrist, and the fireworks circled in the air.He quickly changed the scene again, shaking the hand flower and began to write in the air.

The afterimage left by the fire in the air forms a trail that can be identified in time before disappearing.

careless.

What he wrote was trivial.

Soon, a firework burned out.He put the phone in his pocket again and tapped the next one.

Yan Chaoling's younger brother ran out in a hurry and brought him a whip: "Dad told you to let it go." The child rubbed his hands and stomped his feet, "It's too cold, I'd better go back. Mom said let you play enough." Go back early. I'll go first."

Yan Chaoling shook the firecrackers in his hand towards the camera, "Come on, this year we will set it off together."

He drew a heart on me by waving the flower with his hand, and he put the hanging whip after putting on the eyelash.

Yan Chaoling said: "Only one hundred rings, it will be soon."

Just as he said, the short crackling sound passed, and Yan Chaoling raised his mobile phone, "Look."

Under the warm light, there are small snowflakes falling from the sky, and I suddenly feel as beautiful as a dream.

Yan Chaoling walked slowly towards the street lamp, with every step there was a "creak" sound of stepping on the snow.There was a fresh layer of snow on the ground, and perhaps another layer of snow compacted underneath.

Yan Chaoling squatted on the edge of the green belt under the street lamp and introduced to me: "Such a large piece of land must not be planted with flowers. In fact, in summer, cucumbers, eggplants, tomatoes and the like are planted here."

I watched him write my name on the clean and flat snow with his hands.I was holding the phone, and I heard Yan Chaoling's voice, "Xiaoyi, I miss you so much."

"I miss you as well."

I suddenly felt an indescribable sense of satisfaction in my heart, warm and swollen, as if it was too much to overflow.This kind of feeling made me a little swollen, and I even felt that even if the confession would be rejected in the future, or the graduation meeting would be separated, it would not be so scary.With this moment, everything is worth it.

That's a bit of a mess to say.How to describe it?Probably, at this moment, I suddenly had great courage, which made me feel that I can live well, and face tomorrow and the future openly.

"Yan Chaoling, thank you." Thank you for being with me, thank you for being kind to me.

Yan Chaoling changed it to the front camera so that I could look at him, "Hey, why are you thanking me all of a sudden. Hey, Xiaoyi, why are you crying? Don't cry, don't cry..."

In the snowflakes flying all over the sky, he squatted under the street lamp and videotaped with me, looking at me weeping helplessly.So I laughed again.