Nanke Yifu Chapter 52

Living in the Wind and Staying in the Rain (24)

Feng Su also liked setting off fireworks when he was a child, but what he liked was the excitement of having to run away immediately after lighting the fuse. So he really didn’t understand why there was a “position” dedicated to helping light fires everywhere when the children who were too young had already been taken aside to look after the fireworks.As for himself, he can no longer even think about the excitement that a child would have, and he doesn’t want to play. It’s just boring to watch, so boring that he feels like he is a human-shaped automatic lighter, lighting up wherever he needs it.

Moreover, Yan Laixi was arranged by Lin Yuyou to go to the lobby on the first floor near the front yard to play with fairy wands with a few children who were inconvenient to come out. Thinking about this, he always felt like he had been tricked into working for free.

But… Feng Su sniffed, smelling the increasingly strong smell of gunpowder smoke in the air, thinking about how to find an excuse to change the position of his lighter and go to the front hall to light up the cold fireworks.

After all, Yan Laixi’s words like “It’s okay” and “It’s much better” are too believable. The outside is too choking. He might feel uncomfortable if he comes out and smells it now.

Although there is no credibility in what he said himself, from Feng Su’s point of view, Yan Laixi’s condition has indeed improved visibly in the past two days, and it can be seen that he is not just pretending like before.The recovery speed is much faster than Feng Su expected. If this continues, it won’t be too long before the next cramming plan can begin.

He doesn’t care whether his lover is too fat or too thin, and he is not the kind of person who likes to worry. He just thinks about some things, maybe mentions them a few words, and then ignores them. For example, he always feels that Yan Laixi’s clothes are too thin, and it’s not like he wears them like this for a day or two. He doesn’t feel cold, or he just likes to be cold. It’s all personal habits anyway.But Feng Su has plans to implement the cramming plan. Yan Laixi is currently the kind of person who makes him feel uncomfortable even when he is held in his arms. He doesn’t dare to touch him hard for fear of breaking it.You can be thin or not strong, but you can’t be so thin that you are not strong.

If you don’t wear enough clothes to catch a cold, you just have to take care of the patient for two days. It’s not the same if it’s too weak. If you accidentally break it, that’s another concept.What will happen to Yan Laixi, what will he think, and whether he will be too careful in the future can all be put aside for now. Just because Lin Yuyou finds out about it, he will have to be packed and thrown into the hospital surgery department, and he may have to be forcibly isolated in the future.

Although the refrigerator I saw in the morning was vivid proof that the bamboo pole was actually quite strong, the psychological effect was still not easy to dispel.

Just when I was thinking whether to find an excuse to go to the front hall to be more useful, or to just pretend to be weak and say it was too cold, I heard two taps on the window behind me.

Yan Laixi was lying behind the window looking at him, with her curled fingers still on the glass and not moving back. Seeing that she had successfully attracted his attention, she smiled with her eyes bent, and the hot breath she breathed left a small patch of water vapor on the window, which quickly dissipated. Yan Laixi also ran to the side and disappeared from the window frame.

Winter nights always give people an overly cold feeling. Although it is actually a little warmer than the morning, due to the absence of sunlight, you will always feel very cold psychologically, so you need to wear more clothes, especially when you know that you need to be outdoors.Naturally, fireworks must be set off at night and outdoors, so before going out, Yan Laixi specially put on a long coat that could cover his knees, a scarf, and gloves. Now that he had a set of equipment, he was a little warmer than when he went out during the day two days ago.

It was not cold today, and there was no wind. The fireworks went off smoothly, and they did not feel uncomfortable with the cold. The children were reluctant to go back to the building. They were in groups of three and five. They found a place to play outside without setting off the fireworks. However, Yan Laixi came out and shouted: “Mom said we are going to start preparing for the New Year’s Eve.” The children who were so happy were rushed and coaxed back into the building.

“Aren’t you going in?” Seeing Yan Laixi standing nearby with no intention of moving, Feng Su walked over and asked.

The person in question glanced at him, shook his head, and said, “Stay inside all the time, come out for some fresh air.”

Feng Su hummed, stood beside him, and asked, “Will it be uncomfortable? I smell the fireworks.”

“No.” Yan Laixi said, and he suddenly asked excitedly, “Will you set off fireworks with me later? Although they are cold fireworks, there are safety risks indoors after all. Most children who cannot go out are not in good health. They stopped playing after a while. Mom said that I only stayed indoors this year, and I was not addicted. Let me set off the fireworks during New Year’s Eve.”

Ah, Yan Laixi is the kind of person who gets excited by setting off fireworks, so using this humanoid lighter doesn’t seem so boring. I just don’t know if he needs it, what if he is the same type who likes to light fires like he did when he was a child.

It would be nice to be with you, too.

“Okay.” Feng Su said, “But it’s still a while before zero o’clock, why don’t you do something else?”

“Hmm…” Yan Laixi thought for a while and said, “How about asking mom for some dough to play with? I seem to be planning to make all pasta this year, so there should be plenty.”

Feng Su joked: “Will you line up with your brothers and sisters to receive it?”

“I queued up to receive it with my brothers and sisters.” Yan Laixi said, “Although there are younger brothers and sisters, such as Xiaoyou, the children are all serious about helping, and we are the ones who cause trouble.”

“Old children are children too.” Feng Su nodded in agreement, and thought about it carefully, Yan Laixi’s childhood may be a minority, but it is definitely not an exception. There will always be one or two children with sensitive minds. Let them see that their older brothers and sisters who have grown up and only come back occasionally can be “unreliable”, “ignorant” and “unhelpful”, and maybe it can make them relax a little.

Yan Laixi: “Are you still a child in your twenties or thirties?”

“At least in the eyes of the dean,” Feng Su said, “Anyway, you must still be a child in her eyes. She will also think that you haven’t been able to play with fireworks, so she specially left a chance for you.”

“That’s right.” Yan Laixi suddenly laughed and said, “Don’t blame me. The person who went in last just now… you may not have noticed him. One of my brothers is about to be forty. Just now, my mother said that she would steam a lamb steamed bun specially for him. She said it was because he had just remembered when he was a child.In those few years, the New Year’s Eve meals were mainly pasta, and they also happened to steam lamb steamed buns, so I thought there must be lamb steamed buns during the Chinese New Year. Then one year, they suddenly disappeared and I went to ask. From then on, it became a routine to steam at least one lamb steamed bun every Chinese New Year, regardless of whether he was there or not.”

Perhaps because these words came from Yan Laixi’s mouth, Feng Su also found it interesting and asked: “Then the children who don’t know this won’t think like him that lamb steamed buns are a must-have for the New Year?”

“Maybe.” Yan Laixi said, “I just found out about it. I thought someone liked to pinch lambs before. I also wondered why they only pinched lambs during the Chinese New Year, but it’s not impossible at ordinary times.”

It was just casual chatting, nothing serious or important, and the posture was as relaxed as possible. While talking to Feng Su, Yan Laixi’s eyes were always elsewhere.The white vapor he exhaled was particularly obvious under the light. As his body swayed and jumped slightly in place, it also moved back and forth.He looked at the night sky with fireworks blooming from time to time, at the fence that had been cleaned and decorated with dust, at the ground under his feet that supported his growth, and Feng Su just looked at him.

“Do you come back every New Year?” Feng Su asked.

“Yeah.” Yan Laixi said, “Anyway, I come back every year.”

Feng Su asked again: “Then when you and Chi Fu were together, would he come back with you every year?”

Yan Laixi obviously paused, but then he slightly retracted his chin as a nod and hummed.

“Then can I be like him in the future?” Feng Su said, “I will come back with you every year and celebrate the New Year together.”

“Okay.” Yan Laixi answered quickly this time, but deliberately led the conversation in another direction, “You can bring your friends with you if you want. If you have more than one person, there will be more helpers. But don’t you think it will be noisy if there are too many people?”

Feng Su didn’t go along with his wishes and tried to bring back the ambiguous atmosphere: “Not if I’m with you.”

“Then let’s go in. It’s very cold outside. I thought you didn’t want to go in because it was too noisy.”

Ah, ran away again.

Forget it, let him run. Anyway, we will only let him run for a while.

Feng Su followed Yan Laixi as he hurried into the building and got into the crowd. After Yan Laixi found something for him to do, he followed him to wash his hands and came back to sit next to the people and knead the dough together.

Like a small pendant.

Quicksand buns, sugar triangles, bean paste buns, and steamed buns of various shapes. Looking at them, Feng Su could immediately find the one he pinched. For no other reason than it was too ugly.

He can trim the puppy’s hair beautifully and cutely, but it seems to be the first experience in his memory to knead the puppy with dough, so it is understandable that he will make it look ugly.

But it was too ugly. They said it was a little monster, and the little monster was so angry that it came out to cause destruction. It said it looked different, but even the little monster couldn’t agree.

Just some weird, ugly, original fantasy creature from the time.

Well, he just pinched a strange-shaped thing on a temporary basis. He had no intention of pinching the puppy from the beginning.

The steam came up, filling the kitchen with steaming hot water. I stared at the time and took it out after the steaming was completed. I took it to one side and divided it a portion, and then steamed the next round. The popular ones were swept away, and the less popular ones were temporarily put aside and covered with a cage cloth.Various and weird-shaped steamed buns made by different people – or should be said to be dough – are put together and left at the end, waiting for the moment when the New Year is about to come.

Yan Laixi is going to set off fireworks, and Feng Su wants to go with him, which means at least he doesn’t have to watch the ugly thing come out of the pot.It was good. Although things like noodles would swell and change shape after being steamed, Feng Su was sure that his magical creature would only turn into a round ugly thing when steamed, and it might turn into a swollen ugly thing after it cooled down. In short, they were all ugly things, so he was not curious, and he didn’t really want to see what he pinched for the first time… He didn’t know what kind of food should be called, and what shape it would take in the end.

“Xiao Xi, let’s go.” The ugly thing followed the army onto the steamer. Zhu Jiu looked at the time and called Yan Laixi in less than ten minutes, calling the children to get ready. “Those who want to see the fireworks can go to the window to prepare, but it will take a while. Don’t be anxious and walk slowly. Be careful when you go upstairs. If you can’t find your place, come back to me.”

“Let’s go.” Yan Laixi took the initiative to turn around and called to Feng Su.

After setting up the box and using a flashlight to find the leads, Yan Laixi looked around and finally pointed to a windowless wall on the other side of the building and said to Feng Su, “Let’s run there in a moment.”

As the last five minutes of the new year approach, the night sky is illuminated by colorful fireworks.As the last minute of the new year approached, Yan Laixi looked at the stopwatch and shouted to Feng Su to get ready.In the last few seconds of the new year, the lighter came close to the fuse, and tiny sparks erupted from the flame. Yan Laixi took Feng Su’s hand and ran in the direction he had agreed to before.

Generally speaking, the fuses of various types of fireworks will not burn so fast, and you do not need to run very far after lighting them. As long as you are not mobility-challenged, you can easily walk away a certain distance normally after lighting them.

It was precisely after fully realizing this that fireworks completely lost their appeal to Fengsu.

But the moment Yan Laixi grabbed his hand, the moment Yan Laixi pulled him to run away, the feeling that had long been forgotten in his distant childhood suddenly came back together with the exploding fireworks. Was it excitement?Still excited?Feng Su didn’t know. He only knew that this feeling was different from when he was a child. It was more distinct and complex, and it also brought with it a strong impulse.

At the first second of the year 2485, gorgeous flowers composed of little sparks bloomed in the night above, casting a layer of soft light into the unseen corner under the wall, covering the two figures whose lips and teeth were touching.

The phone vibrated twice in his pocket as the message notification sounded. Yan Laixi pushed Feng Su away, suppressing his breathing that accelerated with his heartbeat. He turned his back and took two steps to the side. He subconsciously wanted to cover the lower half of his face with a scarf. When he didn’t catch anything, he remembered that he had just put it indoors and didn’t take it out.The cell phone he took out was held tightly. The moment he saw the sender, Yan Laixi’s brain suddenly said, “If it’s broken, I’ll have to have a coriander feast.”

On the screen is a hand holding an apple peeled into the shape of a rabbit. It looks like the background is indoors. There seems to be someone next to him, probably Shi Ling. There is also a sentence below: “Happy New Year, look at the rabbit apple I peeled.”

The fireworks were still going off, but the person who lit them was looking away absentmindedly.

After half-heartedly replying Happy New Year, Yan Laixi’s ears caught another message notification sound. It was either from his side, or from Feng Su’s side.

The “noise music” limited to the New Year was still playing in the distance and near, but luckily he could hear it.

When he turned around, he saw Feng Su still standing there, staring straight at him.

Feng Su was not interested in the notification sound. It didn’t matter who sent it or what the content was. He was still recalling the feeling of being grabbed by Yan Laixi’s hand just now, the urge to push Yan Laixi against the wall just now, and Yan Laixi’s eyes widening when he kissed her.The eyes, the lips that opened submissively and submissively, the soft, warm touch just now, and now, even in the night, you can see the ears that are red as if they are about to bleed, the shyness and panic are intertwined, and there is a somewhat overwhelmed look.However, if you ask Yan Laixi about the red ears, he will definitely say that they are from the cold.

Starting from a kiss, Feng Su thought that in the future, Yan Laixi would no longer push him away, and would even take the initiative to ask for a kiss, take the initiative to kiss him… In this way, Lin Yuyou said before that Yan Laixi would suddenly stand up and do some strange movements when writing. It should be to try and facilitate the description, right?Is it possible that one day in the future, in order to describe the feeling of a kiss, Yan Laixi suddenly ran over and dragged him to kiss him without saying a word?

Although they are not lovers in name yet, and although he is really far away from their thoughts in name, they have kissed each other several times, and whether they express their love or not or not does not seem to be that important, it is just a sentence.

Feng Su was immersed in his own world and completely ignored this person who sent him a message at the beginning of the new year. However, he was not interested. Yan Lai was rare. Zheng was worried about what to say or do to ease the atmosphere. He would definitely not let this sound go.

“Don’t you want to see who sent the message?”

It was just a question without words. Feng Su automatically understood that Yan Laixi wanted to read this message, so he unlocked the phone and handed it over to read it together.Yan Lai saw him coming closer. He wanted to take half a step back, but stopped abruptly when he saw the mobile phone handed to him first.

It’s the same photo and sentence, but the sender is different, and the content, style, and even the venue where the photo was taken are completely different.

Chen Mo held a man with long hair in his arms. He must be Huai Qiuying. Yan Laixi didn’t recognize him, but it was not difficult to guess.The background of the photo was a bustling crowd, and Huai Qiuying even looked to the side, not focusing on the camera at all.

“Happy New Year, let’s go out and play. Is my beautiful brother still with you? Are you free? Let’s go together.”

It’s not like Chen Mo hasn’t invited Feng Su before, but the people who invited him just said it casually. The invited people didn’t want to go out and crowd in crowds, nor did they want to shine. Even if Chen Mo said that he and Huai Qiuying were not lovers, it didn’t affect the people who were alone next to them who would still feel as bright as the sun.In short, everything is settled, but this year…

Maybe it was because there was one more person invited, or maybe because he really didn’t want to face the newly baked ugly thing he had made up. Feng Su looked at Yan Laixi, shook his phone, and asked: “Didn’t you say that everyone would go back after twelve o’clock? Although you shouldn’t stay up late now, it’s the New Year. So what do you think, are you interested?”