Silver Leaf Whale Chapter 28

Chinese New Year (2)

Chapter 28: Chinese New Year (2)

After the fireworks were set off, the three of them packed up the trash and headed home. It was almost twelve o’clock and they had to go back to make dumplings.

Li Yunyao followed the two of them absentmindedly. Her good brother was talking to someone without knowing what to say, while Qi Zhixuan next to him laughed happily.

“Li Yunyao?” Pang Jing threw away the shell of the firework and called out as he saw her lagging behind and not knowing what she was thinking.

Li Yunyao was called back to her senses by him, “Hey, it’s coming, it’s coming.” She responded and followed and threw away the garbage in her hands.

Back home, the adults were already busy with their work. The Meihua couple minced the meat and mixed the stuffing. The uncle and aunt rolled out the dumpling wrappers. They were so dexterous that they could roll out several dumplings at the same time.

“Mom, don’t put garlic in the stuffing.” Pang Jing just washed off the fireworks dust on his hands and saw his mother mixing the stuffing, so he warned her.

“I know, I know!” Li Meihua waved her hands impatiently, “Xiao Qi doesn’t eat garlic, you’ve been saying it 800 times! I made cabbage and pork and leek and pork, but there’s no garlic!”

“It’s okay, I can eat without garlic.” Qi Zhixuan pulled a big whale. The whole family was in too much trouble for him.

“It’s okay.” Pang Jing patted his hand, rolled up his sleeves, and prepared to help with the work.

Li Yunyao was like a surveillance camera, staring back and forth at these two people, right? She was right!

Although his brother is a very nice person, he has never been so interested in anyone, and Brother Xiaoxuan…that’s right!

Qi Zhixuan also washed his hands and was following Pang Jing to learn how to make Yuanbao dumplings. Pang Jing moved very fast, pinching one at a time. Qi Zhixuan kept telling him to slow down, but in the end he made a dumpling with the filling exposed. The two of them laughed non-stop.

Li Yunyao observed for a long time, but seeing these two people so happy, she suddenly felt comfortable again. She did not discriminate against homosexuals. His brother and Xiao Xuan looked very good and happy. That was enough. Maybe this road is not easy, but there is no absolute easy road in the world. Heterosexuals still get divorced.

After she figured it out, she stopped worrying about anything and joined the crowd to make dumplings.

After wrapping them for a while, my aunt suddenly clapped her hands and called Li Yunyao: “Hey, Xiaoyun, go to my house and get the coins. I’ve disinfected them. I’ll make a few coin dumplings for good luck!”

“Okay!” Li Yunyao quickly rushed to his parents’ room and took three coins. They would do this in previous years, making dumplings with a few coins. Whoever eats them will have good luck for the year.

The family members are very quick, and they made hundreds of dumplings in a short time. All the curtains were filled to the brim, so they started making and filling the pot to make room for the new dumplings.

The Spring Festival Gala has been playing on the TV. The host is full of joy and is counting down. The fat white dumplings in the pot are floating up. As the New Year’s bell rings, the fireworks outside the house are deafening. At this time, the dumplings are also coming out of the pot. Everyone is holding the dumplings and wishing each other a happy new year. The new year has arrived in such a lively way.

“Here, just eat these. If there is too much left, eat quickly.”

Pang Jing brought a few dumplings to Qi Zhixuan, not many, only about five or six.

“Okay.” Qi Zhixuan took the chopsticks and nodded.

When he ate the first one, he bit into something hard. When he spit it out, he saw it was a coin!

Unexpectedly, there were so many dumplings. He could get a coin from the first one he ate. He turned around and happily shared it with Pang Jing. Unexpectedly, Pang Jing just nodded and said nothing.

Qi Zhixuan was still puzzled because there was no response.

When he was eating the second dumpling, he felt something was wrong. There were coins again. When he finished eating all the dumplings, three coins were actually in his bowl.

“Hey, what’s wrong with you?” Pang Jing was eating melon seeds and watching TV as if nothing had happened when Qi Zhixuan bumped his shoulder lightly.

Pang Jing glanced at it, told him to put it away, and then continued to crack his seeds.

Li Yunyao on the other side was asking around who was eating the coins. After asking around, no one was eating. She was wondering if the dumplings were still in the dumplings that had not been cooked, and she was asking her dad to order more.

Qi Zhixuan wiped the coins clean and put them away secretly. He felt that Pang Jing was really a child and was still playing black box operations. He thought that he would have to send a red envelope to Li Yunyao. Without the small coins, he would have to let her have some good luck with the big banknotes.

They laughed and laughed until midnight, everyone’s stomachs were full, and then came the New Year greetings. Grandma gave red envelopes to all the juniors, even Qi Zhixuan. Grandma held his hand and repeatedly told him: “In the new year, may you be healthy and safe.” He pinched the warm red envelope, his eyes were sore, hugged grandma gently, and whispered: “Thank you, grandma.”

Back in his room, Qi Zhixuan was still staring at the red envelope in a daze. After his father passed away, he almost never received red envelopes from his elders. He felt that he was a child before the age of twenty-two. A child held in the palm of his parents’ hands, he knew nothing, didn’t have to worry about anything, and could do whatever he wanted.

But suddenly one day, he was required to face all the problems, and he was forced to grow up overnight. He was scared, anxious, and collapsed, and had to stand up again and move forward bravely.

But today I received a red envelope again. It feels like I have become that child again. In the messy life, I can take a short breather. Even if I become a cowardly child, I will not be laughed at. It’s great.

“Why, are you so happy to receive the red envelope?”

Pang Jing turned off the headlights and left a night light on. After Qi Zhixuan’s nosebleed last time, he found a night light so that he could see if the guy rolled onto the kang again and could pull him back.

“No, I haven’t received it for a long time. I’m very surprised and very happy.” Qi Zhixuan put away the red envelope, wrapped himself in a quilt and chatted with Pang Jing.

“You know, one year during the Chinese New Year, when I was probably in elementary school, my neighbor came back from abroad and brought back a kind of chocolate and distributed it to several children nearby. I also shared some. It was very delicious, so I saved some money, but I still finished it.

My parents saw that I liked it so much, so they wanted to buy it for me, but it was not convenient to go abroad at that time. My dad went to all the department stores in Haicheng and couldn’t find it.A friend of his was coming back from abroad. He asked someone to bring a box. The aunt who brought the chocolates flew to Haicheng very late at night, so my dad went to get it overnight.

When he got home, it was already midnight. I was already asleep and he shook me awake. My mother put on her clothes and wrapped me in the quilt. My father, who was still cold, peeled the chocolate for me. I didn’t even need to reach out, just sat on the bed and ate a piece.

In fact, I don’t remember what it tasted like, but whenever I think of that time, I feel so happy, just like when I got this red envelope today, it’s very, very good.”

Qi Zhixuan shared his childhood stories ramblingly, and Pang Jing listened quietly. When he talked about happy things, the glimmer in his eyes was eager and warm, and his heart softened.

“Oh, right!” Qi Zhixuan suddenly remembered something, got off the kang, ran to the suitcase, rummaged around, and brought something up.

“This is for you. Although it is a red envelope, it does not contain money or anything.” He handed Pang Jing a red envelope and continued:

“I haven’t told you that both my parents teach art, and I am also an art student. I went to college in Haicheng until my senior year, but I was postponed due to some things. Later, I couldn’t paint anymore for some psychological reasons…

I like to draw very much, but it has been painful for me all these years when I can’t draw.”When Qi Zhixuan said this, his tone became a little darker.

“But I watched your game that day, and somehow, I could suddenly draw! That was really the best thing that happened to me this year.”

Pang Whale slowly opened the red envelope and took out the contents.

“So I give you the best thing I have gotten in a year. Thank you for your help and care for so long. I hope you will be happy and have good luck in the new year.”

Amidst Qi Zhixuan’s blessings, Pang Jing slowly unfolded the paper inside.

It’s a painting.

The painting is of a whale.

Blue, fierce, riding the wind and waves

whale.

Pang Jing held this thin piece of paper, but it felt like it weighed a thousand kilograms. His fingers could not control their trembling. He felt that his eyes were burning. He really, really…

The things in his heart had long been unable to be contained and overflowed. At this moment, they were almost gushing out of his body.

He couldn’t control himself anymore and hugged Qi Zhixuan suddenly.

Qi Zhixuan was stunned. He was so tight that he couldn’t breathe.

“You…” Qi Zhixuan wanted to say something, but his trembling voice came to his ears.

he said

“Qi Zhixuan, come to me.”

Qi Zhixuan suddenly fell silent. Thinking of the kiss on his wrist, he panicked.

Pang Jing loosened his grip slightly, but still held him in his arms. Qi Zhixuan was still wrapped in a quilt. He didn’t know whether it was because he was too hot or too nervous, but he felt a slight layer of sweat on his body.

Pang Whale put his chin on the top of his head, rubbed it affectionately, and then said in a dumb voice:

“Qi Zhixuan, come to me and let me be your family. I will buy you the most delicious chocolate in the world. I will make you your favorite eight-treasure duck. I will take care of you and care about you. I will be your whale and stay with you until the day I disappear.”

“Okay?”

Pang Whale’s face was close to his, and his lips kept brushing up and down his cheek, as if he wanted to kiss him, but he didn’t kiss him.

Qi Zhixuan’s face was burning, his breathing was messed up, and he felt his heart beating in his chest, every time it beat fast and heavy.

But after a long time, he didn’t answer. Pang Whale still hugged him across the quilt, and he smelled the clean and refreshing smell of the sea again.

Every time this smell would make him feel like he was being exposed to the sun and washed in the sea, it could kill all the bad and rotten things in his heart. It was like every moment Pang Whale was around, his bad mood was expelled.

So does he like Pang Whale?Do you want him to be your family member?

“You can think about it again, don’t answer in such a hurry, I will wait.”

Pang Jing didn’t wait for his answer, and he wasn’t discouraged. Instead, he spoke very gently and put his forehead against hers.

“But if you are unhappy or difficult, you can tell me. Don’t suffer and be afraid by yourself anymore. I really… feel so sorry for you.”

Pang Whale’s voice was choked with sobs, and his hand fell on his left wrist, stroking it gently and gently, stroking those ugly and ferocious scars.

“How are you, Qi Zhixuan?” Pang Jing asked him again.

Qi Zhixuan’s eyes were red, and his throat was rolling up and down.

I don’t know how much time passed.

“Okay..”

A hoarse voice came, and Pang Whale hugged him tightly again.

Yes, he couldn’t say no.