no wind in the valley

Before dawn, I feel that I can hear the sound of firecrackers going off.

Shi Yan turned over impatiently, covered his face with a quilt, but still couldn't cover the joyful voice.

Ah, I can't sleep late on the first day of the Chinese New Year. Haven't I been able to sleep well this year?

Shi Yan concedes defeat, sits up, puts on his messy hair, squints his eyes and puts on his glasses.

During this period of time, I have been wearing contact lenses. I don’t know if I have not done a good job in hygiene. I felt discomfort in my eyes last night, and finally put on the glasses with frames.

Scratching her hair and yawning, she walked to the bathroom to wash up, and looked at herself in the mirror with dark circles under her eyes.

Tsk, how can I, who relies on my face for food, have dark circles under my eyes!

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Shi Yan dressed up meticulously in the bathroom.

The flowers that Liu Yue had been waiting for were all gone, "Sister, you're really slow in putting on makeup..." I was almost choked up.

Those who celebrate the New Year cannot be said to be dead or not, it is unlucky, so let's say they are alive.This is Liu Yue's exclusive idea every year.

"Go, go, the new year must be exquisite~" Shi Yan doesn't wear makeup often, he is usually a little lazy, and even without makeup, every time he washes his face, he does a set of skin care seriously, so his skin is white and tender of.

Shi Ting and Li Ying had already washed up in the bathroom of their master bedroom, and now Li Ying is making dumplings in the kitchen.

"Come and go down with me to set off firecrackers." Shi Ting asked Shi Yan, who had packed up, and him to go downstairs to set off firecrackers at a fixed cannon spot, "a good start".

In Shi Yan’s video, every year during the Chinese New Year, my parents are by my side, right? On the first day of the new year, my mother makes dumplings in the kitchen, and my father takes me wearing a big padded jacket to set off firecrackers downstairs.When the firecrackers were lit, my mother put the dumplings into the pot.

Shi Yan doesn't know exactly what it means, but he just feels very warm, this is a warm family.

"Mom, let's make dumplings. Dad is going to light the fire." Shi Yan looked at Shi Tang and was about to light the spark, so he called Li Ying and told her.

Li Ying heard Shi Yan say "Okay!" It's off!

Downstairs, Shi Yan and Shi Ting ran aside to look at the red firecrackers on the ground, and they bounced around when they were blown up, and the sound was extraordinarily loud.

The two of them covered their ears and waited for all the firecrackers to be set off before returning home.

After entering the house, I saw Liu Yue helping Li Ying serve dumplings.

"Uncle, how much do you eat?" Liu Yue asked Shiting with a smile.

"A dozen or so is enough, you can't eat much in the morning."

"Where is the old lady?"

Shi Yan doesn't eat much in the morning, and she doesn't like to eat dumplings in the morning. "Four or five, I'm not hungry."

"Okay, Auntie, I'll give you the same amount as Uncle."

Li Ying, who was still chopping coriander, said hello and asked Shi Yan to come and serve the dumplings.

When Liu Yue was ready to put it on the vegetable cutting table, Li Ying put coriander in each bowl, but was stopped by Shi Yan, "Don't put it for me."

"Huh? So delicious." Li Ying likes to eat coriander.

Shi Yan smiled a little disappointed, "The thing I don't like the most is coriander, so my mother didn't know about it."

"..." I didn't think of it all at once.Li Ying didn't speak, and asked Liu Yue and Shi Yan to bring it out quickly to avoid this topic.

Shi Yan didn't intend to hold on to this question, shrugged his shoulders, and took out the dumplings with soup indifferently.

Feeling the vibration of the mobile phone in his pocket, Shi Yan knew that Zhou Qiyao was up, and Shi Yan also recorded the video of setting off firecrackers just now and sent it to her. This was a reply to her.

Zhou Qiyao: [Morning! ]

[I was also woken up by firecrackers early in the morning...]

[Sure enough, the sound of firecrackers you shot is nice. ]

Shi Yan pursed his lips and smiled: [I started eating before you got up, lazy~]

Zhou Qiyao: [Can't wake up jpg]

[You eat first, I'll wash up. ]

Shi Yan replied yes, put away her phone and ate her four dumplings seriously...

After eating, the four of them drove to grandpa's house to pay New Year's greetings.

When we arrived at the grandpa’s house, we waited for all the children of grandparents to come to pay New Year’s greetings, three generations of grandparents, and then went to pay New Year’s greetings to the two old people one by one, waiting for the most exciting thing—New Year’s money.

Shi Yan: [This year's New Year's money is more than last year's! ]

【sprinkling flowers jpg】

Zhou Qiyao replied quickly: [Envy jpg]

Shi Yan: [However, if you come to pay New Year's greetings tomorrow, you will get it. I think it's better to give you the change fee directly. ]

When Zhou Qiyao saw it, she felt that Shi Yan was talking nonsense: [How can the New Year's money become a change of mouth fee. ]

Shi Yan misunderstood it, thinking that he wanted to get two shares of money, and joked for a long time that Zhou Qiyao was so rich that she was still greedy for money.

Zhou Qiyao deliberately left her alone for an hour.

After paying New Year's greetings to the elders, the children of grandparents went to other people's homes to pay New Year's greetings. Of course, many people also came to visit Grandpa's New Year's greetings. Many of them were treated by Grandpa. They all felt that Grandpa had rejuvenated, and I was always grateful to him of.

At night, Shi Yan once again said to his grandparents, "Yaoyao will come tomorrow, you must welcome her, don't let her be afraid."

Grandma tapped Shi Yan's forehead with her finger, "You, grandma, am I so fierce?"

"That's not true, my grandma is the best old lady in the world, the most enlightened!" Shi Yan was afraid that grandma would taste bad, so he hugged her and acted like a baby for a long time.

It made the other aunts laugh for a long time, and they were also curious about how special the girl who came tomorrow would be for her eldest niece to favor her for so long.

"It's right to be a very good girl. She is a fish and a wild goose, she is ashamed of a moon, she is gentle and elegant, she is as charming as jade, as beautiful as a fairy, and she is soft-spoken...Anyway, she is not ordinary." Shi Yan felt that he used the most praised words in his life. , standing in the middle of the living room with her waist crossed, she was so arrogant and coquettish.

It feels like she's not talking about others but a sense of pride in herself.

"Ouyou, old lady, you said that, I want to see which sister is so good tomorrow~" Liu Yue said yes at the end, with a little smile, and quietly winked at Shi Yan.

"Anyway, I'll find out tomorrow. It's the first time for a little girl to come to our house to pay New Year's greetings. Don't scare her, grandma, mother, and aunt." Shi Yan still confessed earnestly.

The others were speechless, but said, "Don't worry, I got it."

I don't know who murmured: "I feel as nervous as Yan Yan wants to bring back my object."

The other adults took it as a joke when they heard it and didn't answer it. Only Shi Yan and Liu Yue, who knew that the object was coming, broke out in a cold sweat.

The two pretended not to hear, Liu Yue interrupted and changed the subject, Shi Yan didn't dare to say anything more.

……

On the other side of Zhou Qiyao's home, Fan Ning changed into home clothes and sat on the sofa.

"Stop standing, sit down." Fan Ning looked at Zhou Qiyao, and gestured for her to sit on the single sofa next to her with his chin.

After Zhou Qiyao sat down, Fan Ning carefully hugged her.She's grown up, and she's different from the girl in my impression who cowered in front of her.

Rebelled.

"I saw it."

Zhou Qiyao let out a long sigh of relief when she heard it, her heart, which had been tensed for more than ten hours, was much more relaxed when she got the answer, although what she was facing was not a very good thing.

"I guessed it." Zhou Qiyao looked at her familiar but unfamiliar mother, "What are you going to say this time?"

Fan Ning met her daughter's firm eyes, and thought she looked like that man before, but now she felt that she was like her former self at this moment.

But what's the use, it's just a child.

Zhou Qiyao continued to ask: "Are you going to say something threatening to make me give up?"

"impossible!"

She is really a child, with that innocent energy, Fan Ning curled her lower lip: "I am your mother, don't talk to me like this, it's impolite."

"I heard that coming out to my family members is frightening, but you are confident and confident, much better than your father...Okay...don't say these things that people don't want to hear during the Chinese New Year."

Fan Ning got up and planned to catch up on sleep. He was a little tired after not getting a good sleep during this time. When he went upstairs, he stopped and said to Zhou Qiyao, "Are you going to Shi Yan's house for New Year's greetings tomorrow?"

"Um…"

"Remember to go to the mall to buy some gifts. Although I don't want you to go, but I promised to go, etiquette is still necessary. Don't let others say that my Fanning's daughter will not come." After all, this is the last time you go .

The latter sentence was not told to Zhou Qiyao, telling her might interrupt the rhythm of her deployment.

"Happy New Year." Fan Ning added after going upstairs.

Zhou Qiyao, who was sitting in the living room below, was a little confused about what Fan Ning wanted to do.

In my memory, Fan Ning seldom appeared during the Chinese New Year, and I rarely saw her a few times a year. Every time I saw this cold and dignified mother, Zhou Qiyao would be very scared when she was a child.

As she grew older, Zhou Qiyao also knew how to face Fan Ning.Just don't talk, just do your own thing, anyway, the two of them don't have much to talk about.

In Zhou Qiyao's eyes, Fan Ning always felt young, her face was still the same, but her temperament became more and more different, and her sense of oppression became stronger and stronger.

"Alas..." Zhou Qiyao covered her eyes with her arms and collapsed on the sofa, feeling powerless.

Ding ~ Wechat sent a message.

Zhou Qiyao sat up and picked up the phone from the table, and saw that it was a message from Shi Yan.

Tell her that the elders in the family have made arrangements so that she will not feel pressured.

Zhou Qiyao slid her thumb on the screen, you said, what if I really lose you, an idiot?

Before it was dark, Zhou Qiyao went out to the mall to buy gifts.

The ones for the two old people, and the ones for her parents, the ones for the three aunts and the uncle's family are all ready.

In the end, she had to be picked up by the driver before she could go home.

A bunch of things, it seems that I still have to let Uncle Li send me there tomorrow.Zhou Qiyao looked at the things in the trunk.

"Uncle Li, I have to trouble you to send me to New Year's greetings tomorrow, and I should have missed you."

Uncle Li waved his hand, "It's okay, I'm also a wage earner, and Mr. Fan's salary is to pick you up and drop you off. You haven't used me as an old man for a long time, and you feel like you're about to lose your job."

Zhou Qiyao thought about it for a while, and it was true.Ever since I came to Blue Whale to go to school, I rarely let Uncle Li pick me up. Whenever I go home, Shi Yan will hire a taxi for me to take me to the car.

I feel quite sorry for Uncle Li, after all, he made him unemployed.

When she got home, Zhou Qiyao put all the presents in the car, and she was going to take them there tomorrow anyway.

Fan Ning didn't know when she woke up, she had packed up and went out by herself.Probably won't be back anytime soon.

----

Early in the morning, Zhou Qiyao got up to tidy herself up.

Thinking that this age is not suitable for overly mature attire, Zhou Qiyao dressed a little girlishly and put on light makeup.

Shi Yan was already waiting at his grandparents' house.

Zhou Qiyao sent a message to Shi Yan when she was leaving the house.

"Grandpa and grandma! Yaoyao is going out!" Shi Yan was very excited.

"Sit down obediently and don't shake around."

Grandma was dizzy from the big granddaughter's eyes shaking, she grabbed Shi Yan's hand and made her sit obediently.

"I'm not excited."

The distance was not very far, but there was some traffic jam on the road, and it was already an hour later when Zhou Qiyao told Shi Yan that she had reached the downstairs of the unit gate.

"Grandma, I'll go down and help Yaoyao carry things first." Shi Yan put on his shoes and went out after saying that.

Grandpa stood at the door with his hands behind his back, "This kid is pretty good at it."

"Old man, don't stand at the door and blow the air." Grandma saw that grandpa was wearing thin clothes and the corridor was cold, Shi Yan was anxious to go down and hadn't closed the door yet.

The aunt sat next to her, "It seems that my dad likes her as a friend."

"That little girl looks quiet and polite, and she's not bad looking. Although I've only met her once, I like it."

Grandma pulled Grandpa in, and left the door ajar for Shi Yan and the others to open the door and come in.

"Yaoyao!" Shi Yan came down quickly.

Zhou Qiyao was taking down the gifts one by one, and Uncle Li was also helping.

Seeing a helper nearby, Shi Yan said again, "Happy New Year, Uncle!"

"Happy Chinese New Year!" Uncle Li smiled, the little girl had a sweet mouth.

Looking at the pile of things under Zhou Qiyao's feet, Shi Yan was a little surprised, "Why did you buy so many?"

"I still think it's too little." Zhou Qiyao held three pieces in one hand, "Help me get the rest, it's not enough."

"I can already imagine my family's surprise."

Shi Yan grabbed the remaining six or seven things, luckily they were all gift boxes, otherwise he would be exhausted.

Except for the time when Shi Yan was wearing a frame when we first met, he wore contact lenses at all other times except when he was wearing a frame when he just woke up.

"Why are you wearing glasses?" Zhou Qiyao asked.

Shi Yan supported the frame with his hands, "I guess the ones I wore before had bacteria, and it was uncomfortable to wear... Do you think my appearance has improved after wearing the frames?" He raised his eyebrows too much.

"Greasy."

After entering the elevator, Shi Yan took the opportunity to kiss Zhou Qiyao a few times, and then looked satisfied.

"That's the smell~" Shi Yan narrowed his eyes.

"What's the smell?"

"The smell of ecstasy." Shi Yan shook his head. "Are you nervous?"

Zhou Qiyao nodded.

"With me here, don't be afraid, they are all your future family members." Shi Yan also took advantage of the opportunity.

Zhou Qiyao didn't have the heart to go back to Shi Yan, and kept thinking about how to say hello, why her family is so harmonious.It's not like my own family is torn apart for family property.

Shi Yan could tell that Zhou Qiyao was nervous, so he teased her.

Soon the elevator arrived, and Zhou Qiyao followed Shi Yan into the door.

As soon as she entered and stood at the entrance, she saw Liu Yue waiting. She smiled and said, "Hi sister, grandma and grandpa, my sister's friend is here." Pretending to see her for the first time.

Zhou Qiyao understood what she meant, "Hello."

Zhou Qiyao walked a little further in, and saw a group of people sitting in the living room, all looking towards her.

If Zhou Qiyao had social fear, she would have fainted from fright by now.

"...Happy New Year, grandparents, I'm here to pay New Year's greetings." Zhou Qiyao looked at the familiar faces in the crowd and began to speak.

"Happy New Year, uncle and aunt." Zhou Qiyao's parents, who knew Shi Yan, nodded and greeted them both.

Then I looked at the rest of the people, "Happy New Year, I'm Yanyan's friend."

Whoops, why is this little girl so good at making troubles? Seeing that this person really looks like what Shi Yan said, and the voice really warms my heart.

"Yaoyao don't stand there, come in quickly." Grandma stood up and called her over.

"You say you, you still learn to follow the etiquette at a young age." Although the grandma was talking, her face was still as happy as a flower.

Shi Yan put the gift in his hand beside the coffee table, and took the things from Zhou Qiyao's hand.

Quietly touched her hand, Zhou Qiyao quickly retracted it in fright.

Shi Yan and Liu Yue behind looked at each other, then smiled helplessly, the little guy was timid.

Zhou Qiyao sat next to the old man, surrounded by a group of people.

Asking questions, the man found it boring and everyone read it, so he left to entertain himself and play family mahjong.

As for the women, look at the cosmetics or skin care products that Zhou Qiyao sent, and praise her.

Shi Yan looked at this scene and felt that this was the ugly daughter-in-law seeing her in-laws.

While chatting, I saw grandma taking out a red envelope and stuffing it to Zhou Qiyao, and then my mother happily gave it to her, and so did the aunts.

Zhou Qiyao shied away several times, saying that she was too old and didn't need it anymore.

"Take it, Shi Yan is so big, and shamelessly want to get more red envelopes!" Second Aunt said and stuffed the red envelopes into Zhou Qiyao's pocket.

After receiving Zhou Qiyao's n-time look for help, Shi Yan got up from the small bench next to him and walked over to pull Zhou Qiyao out.

"Just take the red envelopes from my family. It's New Year's Eve."

"I haven't seen her for a long time, let her play with me for a while, and we'll talk later when we eat." Without waiting for other people to react, he pulled Zhou Qiyao and Liu Yue into calligraphy together.

The tool man—Liu Yue huddled in the corner, plugged in the earphones and played with the phone.

Shi Yan asked Zhou Qiyao to sit on the chair, leaned on the table, and patted his chest lightly with one hand, "It's okay... my family is not scary."

Zhou Qiyao looked at Shi Yan's nervousness, she was still a little scared, but she also said, "It's not scary, it's the first time I see such a harmonious family." Thinking of the scene just now, Zhou Qiyao smiled and rolled her eyes again.

"Everyone gave red envelopes..." After grandma passed away, she never took the money wrapped in red envelopes.

Shi Yan stretched his arms and sat on the desk: "Take it, everyone in my family is like this." Then he took out five or six red envelopes from his pocket, "Look! Mine!"

It's not her own home, so Zhou Qiyao doesn't feel at ease just sitting there.

"Why don't I go out and see if I can help with cooking, isn't it good to sit in the house like this?" Zhou Qiyao said.

Also help with cooking?

"You know how to cook hahahaha, why don't you just sit here and accompany me for a while." Shi Yan hooked the chin of the person opposite and asked.

Knowing that Liu Yue was still by her side, Zhou Qiyao slapped her hand away, and her ears started to turn red.

"On your territory, of course you are not afraid... No, I have to go out, and I can't leave a bad impression."

After finishing speaking, she stood up and walked outside, but when she got to the door and grabbed the doorknob, Zhou Qiyao looked at Shi Yan who was sitting on the table.

Shi Yan is not around, still panicking.

Shi Yan just sat on purpose and didn't move.

Knowing that Zhou Qiyao was teasing her, "Let's go!"

Before the tigress gets mad, one who knows current affairs should be a hero.

"Walk around, be sure to stay by the side of the ugly daughter-in-law, and save relatives from asking."

"You are ugly..."

This is the default hahaha, Shi Yan is in a better mood, willing to go out with him, and continue to chat with the seven aunts and eight aunts at home.

Li Ying, who was sitting on the side, was the first time that Shi Yan cared about her friend like this. She had never done this with Li Ran and Shan Yi before.

I have been friends with them for nearly 12 years, and An Sanxun has been there for six years, and I have never seen Shi Yan so worried about bringing friends into the house.

Thinking of seeing two people coming out of Shi Yan's bedroom together in Nancheng's home...

It's a bit strange, but I can't catch any thoughts.Fortunately, this little girl is also sensible.Li Ying didn't think about anything anymore.

At the dinner table, Zhou Qiyao's plate was never empty, and the elders were all adding food.

Sitting next to her, Shi Yan felt overwhelmed.

Seeing that she had eaten half the usual amount, "Don't eat if you can't take it." Shi Yan whispered in her ear.

"It's fine, you can still eat." Although it's already too much, but there is so much left, it's not good to have leftovers in front of Shi Yan's parents.

Seeing that Zhou Qiyao was still showing off, she had no choice but to say to them, "Everyone...I'm jealous, and they all give Yaoyao some food, but not me. You see so much food on other people's plates, but mine is still empty, sad."

Grandma said, "I'm a guest, so why don't you say you're so old?"

Shi Yan shook his head, "Hey, I'm embarrassed, don't pick it up for me, I'll eat what you pick her up."

After talking about the chopsticks, she put all the dishes on Zhou Qiyao's plate into her own bowl, and started to eat.

Zhou Qiyao knew Shi Yan's intentions, and she was embarrassed to say that she couldn't eat any more, so she helped herself to eliminate the rest.

Not only let her not have to eat anymore, but also let everyone know that there is too much on Zhou Qiyao's plate, so there is no need to pick it up.

Zhou Qiyao quietly took Shi Yan's hand under the table and squeezed it.

Shi Yan and her looked at each other, smiled, and continued to eat.

How could she not know, in fact, Shi Yan couldn't hold on anymore.

It's nice to have you, and it's nice to have your home environment.

The author has something to say:

In fact, from the morning of the first day of the new year, the family made dumplings and set off firecrackers, it can be seen that parents still love Shi Yan.It's just that the time spent with her is so little that her mother forgot that Shi Yan doesn't like coriander.

After the new year, I will write about two more articles and I will start to abuse.

As for Shi Yan being short-sighted, I wrote about it in Chapter 1. She would grab glasses and put them on when she woke up, and she is also moderately short-sighted.

Also, this is the first chapter of nearly [-] words since the opening of this book.

The main reason for the slower writing is that I am lazy, and there are few people who read it, so I have no motivation.

In addition, I have already started my internship in the hospital, I have many things to do, and I feel tired every day...

just very slow