Say it's only once

After zero o'clock, people outside slowly turned off the lights, and only a few windows were still lit.

Among them were the rooms of Chi Jin and Ji Ran.

The two of them didn't go back tonight, they lived in the second bedroom of grandma's house. Before Lu Wei and Chi Yaxu went out to investigate, Chi Jin lived here.

The room is decorated in the style of the last century, with wooden wardrobes, wooden beds, and a wooden desk and bookcase.There is still a sticker of the white lady on the head of the bed. The sticker has turned yellow and its sides are warped.

The bedding has just been washed and dried, and there is still the smell of sunlight after being exposed to the sun.Fresh light green small floral, grandma said that it was specially prepared for the two of them.

Ji Ran was lying on the bed, not sleepy at all, with his head tilted back, looking at the sticker of the white lady and silently curling his lips.

Turning his head to look, Chi Jin closed his eyes.

"Are you asleep?" She asked softly.

"Not yet, what?" Chi Jin opened his eyes.

She was clear-eyed and in good spirits.

Ji Ran turned over and lay on her stomach, looked at her and said, "I can't sleep, let's chat."

Chi Jin blinked slowly. In fact, she didn't feel sleepy right now, but reason told her that she should go to bed early.

The tone was a bit struggling: "It's very late."

"Chinese New Year! I don't have to get up early tomorrow. I'm a little excited and can't sleep. Thinking that this is the room where you studied and lived, I really want to explore it."

Ji Ran moved up a little, and grabbed Chi Jin's hand to play with: "I've been busy during the day, so I don't have time to come to this room to have a look. Are there any old photo albums or something?"

Yes there is.

But Chi Jin was a little hesitant when he saw her eager to explore. He hadn't seen the old photo album for a long time, so he didn't know if there was any dark history in it.

"Aren't you right!" Ji Ran saw her hesitation, and lowered his head to rub against Chi Jin's collarbone: "I want to see, I want to see, sister, I want to see."

If Chi Jin didn't answer, her hands began to be dishonest.

"I want to see my sister, I want to see."

"..." Chi Jin was finally defeated: "All right, all right."

"yeah!"

Chi Jin had no choice but to get out of bed and search the drawer under the bookcase.

Ji Ran sat cross-legged on the bed, shaking his head and laughing.

"Here."

Chi Jin dug out an old rubber photo album and put it on the bed.

Ji Ran's eyes were bright, and he turned to the first page with a smile, and couldn't help laughing: "Haha, you used to have this kind of croissant pierced when you were young, so cute!"

When Chi Jin saw it, he immediately covered his face.

She knew that there must be a dark history.

In the old photo, I don’t know it’s the karst cave scenic spot, it’s glowing red, the three-year-old girl’s cheeks are red, and round horns are pierced on both sides of her head.

He raised his hands high, gestured V to the camera, and smiled brightly.

There is also a red dot between the eyebrows.

silly.

"Huh? What is this?" Ji Ran turned his head, and gently tapped Chi Jin's eyebrows with his index finger: "You used to have a red mole here? Did you click it off later?"

Chi Jin leaned back, avoided her hand, and touched the center of his brow.

"No, this... These are the red dots that were popular at that time on the center of the eyebrows, and even little girls put them on."

Ji Ran pouted, not believing: "Really?"

"Of course it's true."

Chi Jin also poked Ji Ran's eyebrows with his fingers, and said solemnly: "The post-00s don't understand the trend of the post-90s."

Ji Ran smiled and let her poke, and even went up to kiss her fingers, Chi Jin quickly withdrew his hand.

While flipping through the photo album, Ji Ran issued a real-time barrage.

"Your face was still a little baby fat when you were young, so round and cute."

"I love beauty. I still wear small red leather shoes when I was five or six years old. The little red dots between the eyebrows really look cuter. I don't know if they are available on Taobao. I will buy some for fun some other day."

"Huh? My sister really developed very early, and her breasts are not small in junior high school, tsk."

"Ah! I have almost the same pair of overalls! Fashion really is a cycle."

Chi Jin has been quiet all this time, and couldn't help erupting when he heard this: "Eight years old, it can't be called reincarnation."

Ji Ran raised his head and smiled: "I was wrong, I have to express my apology with actions."

As he spoke, he closed the photo album, leaned towards Chi Jin, lightly hooked the shoulder strap of the nightdress with his index finger and slid it down.

After being together for so long, what else does Chi Jin not understand?

She was shocked, covered her shoulder straps, and reprimanded in a low voice: "Grandma is next door!"

It's too late.

She never had the power to fight back in front of Ji Ran.

The soft quilt of floral flowers covers the whole world, undulating in the dim light of the bedside lamp.

After a while she gasped for breath, and bit her lower lip desperately again, feeling the air was thin, so she had to let go of her lips to breathe, and accidentally let out a sound.

"Sister, grandma is next door..."

Ji Ran was next to her ear, her breath was thin and hot.

Chi Jin's eyes were watery, and he couldn't tell whether it was the original watery eyes or he was about to cry.

He stared at her fiercely, but he lacked any momentum because of the watery appearance.

On the first day of the new year, the moonlight witnessed silently. After a long time, the floral soft cover was lifted, revealing two cheeks with the same slightly blush.

Chi Jin's hair is messy, and Ji Ran tidies it up for her.

Chi Jin didn't have much strength, so he raised his hand and hit her, and it slipped down again limply.

Ji Ran held her hand: "Sister, I'm so happy, are you happy?"

I want to say that I am not happy.

But facing Ji Ran's starry eyes, those angry words can't be uttered.

The first day of the new year.

Chi Jin pursed his lips, and whispered unwillingly but willingly: "Happy."

During the few days of Chinese New Year, both of them stayed at grandma's house, accompanied the old man, and occasionally went out to play with Ji Ran's friends.

This is also the first Spring Festival holiday that Chi Jin has not been full of study and work since he grew up.

On the sixth day.

Ji Ran got up in the morning and was changing clothes.

Chi Jin's physical strength was not as good as hers, so he sat up now, his eyes half-closed, and his hands beside him unconsciously groped for his clothes.

A live performance of a blind man touching an elephant.

Ji Ran couldn't help curling her lips, thinking that she was indeed tired last night, so she grabbed the clothes next to her and sent them to Chi Jin.

Chi Jin slowly changed his clothes.

Ji Ran suddenly said, "Accompany me to Anling today."

Chi Jin froze for a moment, and finally opened his eyes.

Anling is a cemetery.

"Today is my father's death day."

Anling is located in Xishan, a remote place in Ningcheng.

It just snowed last night, and at a glance, there is a vast expanse of whiteness.There are rows of tall trees on both sides of the cemetery, with bare branches and covered with a layer of white snow.

A large number of tombstones are stepped up in a snow field.

They came very early, it was the Spring Festival holiday, and no one had cleared the snow on the mountain road yet.

No one else, only two figures in the snow.

"Slow down, the snow is slippery." Ji Ran reminded: "I knew the snow in the mountains was so thick, so I went home and changed into a pair of snow boots."

The normal winter boots they both wore.

Chi Jin said "hmm": "Just walk slowly."

Looking around, the snow has blurred the original appearance of Xishan Anling, and some landmarks on the roadside are covered by snow, making it difficult to see clearly.

But Ji Ran walked resolutely, did not stop to find the way, led Chi Jin, walked step by step through the snow, and arrived in front of a tombstone.

In the photo on the tombstone, the man is very young, handsome and elegant, his eyes are unbelievably beautiful on the man's face, and he smiles at the camera.

Chi Jin recognized at the first sight that it was the same person in the playground photo on Ji Ran's bed.

"Does it look better than that one? I specially picked this one, a photo of Dad at the age of 28."

Ji Ran seemed to know what she was thinking, she stuffed the calla lily into Chi Jin's hand: "Here, I'll clean this side."

Wearing brown leather gloves, she swept away the snow accumulated on the tombstone, and then pushed away the snow in front of the tombstone, among which were withered flower branches.

Only when a small open space was exposed, he took the white calla lily from Chi Jin's hand and carefully placed it in front of the tombstone.

Then she stood up and did not speak for a long time.

Chi Jin turned his head and saw Ji Ran's expression was calm, like a lake without waves in autumn.

She looked back, after a while, couldn't help but look at her again, and was finally caught by Ji Ran.

"Are you wondering why I didn't cry?"

Being poked at the center again, Chi Jin felt a little embarrassed.

In the past, when Ji Ran mentioned his father, he always choked up involuntarily, but now when he came to the tombstone, he was so calm.

"When Dad first went there, the pillow was wet when he woke up every day, let alone coming to his grave. But..."

The mountains and rivers are very quiet, and the snow field is also empty. Her tone of voice is calm and gentle, each word is like a drop of water falling into the snow field, so light that there is no trace.

"It's been six years, no matter how sad I am, I have to accept the reality. Now, occasionally when I have something on my mind, I will come here to talk to my father, say it in my heart, and don't say it out loud. In the past, it was not easy to disturb my friends on New Year's Eve, so I came here to talk to my father. Dad talking."

For a long while, Chi Jin didn't speak.

With a twitch of her heart, she suddenly realized that she hadn't kept Ji Ran on New Year's Day last year.

So, on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year last year, she came to Anling alone to pay homage to her father.

"last year……"

"What happened last year? It's already this year." Ji Ran wiped away his loneliness, smiled and took Chi Jin's hand: "I'm taking you today, and I'm also introducing you to Dad."

She has a good look, and her tone is a little proud: "Dad, you don't know what a good girlfriend I found, her name is Chi Jin. Don't look at her like this, she is very kind, and her heart is very sweet." It's very hot."

Her tone was natural and friendly, as if the opposite was not a tombstone, but a living person.

Chi Jin was also infected by her attitude, nodded and blurted out: "Uncle... yes."

Ji Ran couldn't help laughing, amused by her blank look.

Chi Jin sighed softly, looked at the tombstone and said, "He's still here, be more solemn."

"Okay, solemn and solemn."

Ji Ran also looked at the photo: "Dad, I haven't said the most important thing today. In the future, I will no longer be alone. With someone who loves me by my side, everything will be fine."

"Love?"

Not long after we met, Ji Ran's "like" was on his lips, and he said it to her tirelessly.

But "love" never seemed to be mentioned.

Chi Jin was startled.

Ji Ran turned his head, his brows were raised, and his tone was incredible: "You don't love me? You made me like this?"

There is no one around, and there is only a white snow field between the sky and the earth.

However, Chi Jin still felt shy and a little bit happy.

For Ji Ran, she likes it very much.

I like it so much that even if the two of them may not have a lifetime in the future, they are willing to deviate from the secular track to enjoy the present with her and cater to each other's likes.

"Anyway, I love you." Ji Ran's tone was a little aggrieved.

So, what is like and love?

As far as she is concerned, such a relentless liking, what else can it be but love?

Chi Jin finally understood, his voice was softer than the wind: "Me too."

"I didn't hear it." Ji Ran leaned forward and turned his ear to her: "Say it again."

"Me too." Chi Jin spoke a little louder.

"Still didn't hear." Ji Ran didn't even look at her.

"...You!" Chi Jin realized, "I won't say anything!"

Ji Ran turned around and hugged her, not looking aggrieved, and said with a smile: "Okay, I heard it. Come on, say hello to Dad, and we'll go back."

Thanks to her reminder, Chi Jin adjusted his expression, became more solemn, lowered his waist slightly to the tombstone, and bowed.

"Uncle, I will take good care of Jiran."

On the way down the mountain, there was another light snow falling and dancing all over the sky.

The footprints when they came were covered with fresh snow, the white and flat snow, and the snow-white softness was stepped on by two people side by side one after another.

The two walked down the mountain hand in hand, discussing what to have for lunch.

Chi Jin's hand was in Ji Ran's coat pocket.

Ji Ran's hands are very warm.

"Go back and show you the photos of me when I was a child. My father took them for me. My father is also a master in taking pictures."

Ji Ran was smiling, the winter sun fell into her eyes, warm and bright.

"it is good."

Chi Jin was also laughing.

The hand holding Ji Ran tightened slightly.

She is her lover.

It is also all her recklessness.

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感谢在2021-08-2323：51：05~2021-08-2423：18：02期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who cast the rocket: Jade Rabbit picked 1 piece of cotton; thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution: did not take a bottle of Chinese books; thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!