Bamboo horses peck each other daily

Cheng Xia lay hugging the pillow, feeling that the air was so quiet that it was uncomfortable, he sat up and grabbed Shi Xu's clothes: "Turn on the TV."

Shi Xu frowned: "I don't want to see it."

Cheng Xia lay back again, scratching the thin brown thread sewn on the leather on the sofa with itchy hands, hooking his fingernails one by one.

Staring at Shi Xu's irritable expression, Cheng Xia suddenly thought that today is also Shi Xu's birthday.It was obvious that none of them had birthdays, but after Xu gave him a set of books as a gift during the summer vacation, he began to pay attention to this day inexplicably.

He didn't know if Shi Xu would have the same feeling as himself. It was good that he had never had a birthday before. Once he mentioned it, he would unconsciously look forward to it, wondering if someone would remember his birthday and give him a birthday gift at that time. A gift, or a happy birthday would be nice too.

As Cheng Xia thought about it, the strength in his hands became heavier and heavier, and he accidentally broke a thread.He blinked, sneaked the wire back, and then patted the sofa: "Let's go to the square, I heard there are a lot of people there."

Shi Xu turned his head and looked at Xia boredly: "Okay. But Uncle Chen has already gone home."

"You can take a taxi." Cheng Xia called up the taxi app on his mobile phone, and no one picked up the order for a long time. Sure enough, everyone went back to have the New Year's Eve dinner on New Year's Eve...

Shi Xu watched the meeting together, and added 1000 yuan, thinking that the driver would notice this way, so he nodded in satisfaction.

Cheng Xia: "..."

Bastard it's my pocket money!

The money offensive was carried out smoothly, and they finally found a driver who was willing to take them to the square. Shi Xu also negotiated with him to pick them up after twelve o'clock.

In the open-air square, people wrapped themselves in fluffy clothes to make them square or round. Small people of various shapes gathered into a dense crowd, which was quite different from the sparse vehicles on the road.Merchants are very aware of people’s consumption mentality, and seized the opportunity when everyone would let go of their money. On New Year’s Eve, the entire shopping building was brightly opened, and the center of the square was full of fire and silver flowers. Warm yellow, white, and colorful lights converged. One hall, like stars falling, decorates the square brilliantly.

When Cheng Xia and Shi Xu got out of the car, they were attracted by the big screen hanging on the shopping mall, which was broadcasting the Spring Festival Gala in real time.As always, the Spring Festival Gala program has a lot of slots, but in such a square, everyone can't help but look at it. Watching the Spring Festival Gala with hundreds of people, it is not drowsy at all.

The crowd was huge, Cheng Xia only looked up at the big screen for a while, then turned around to find that he and Shi Xu had been dispersed. Fortunately, they all brought their mobile phones, so they were not afraid of losing contact.

Cheng Xia began to wander around leisurely with the flow of people, and when he was hungry, he would buy some hot snacks from the roadside vendors.

There are a lot of children in the square, they are led by their parents, but at this special time, some people go crazy, the small body exerts a huge force and drags the parents to the left and right, and it doesn't take long to lead the adults to rush. Entered the most beautiful shopping mall in their opinion.Cheng Xia also followed the gap they created between the crowd and walked into the shopping mall.

Now the most open shopping malls are all kinds of gourmet restaurants. Every few steps, you can smell a completely different fragrance from before. After smelling the aroma of barbecue several times in a row, Cheng Xia finally couldn't help but enter his own shop. I ordered a skewer by myself, and it was delicious.

After Cheng Xia finished eating the meat skewers, his mouth was full of oil, and he happened to see a beautifully decorated small shop, and there happened to be a pack of tissue paper on the cash register.

He went in and borrowed a piece of paper, and was about to return the store to buy a trinket when he saw a hanger next to the cash register that said "custom mobile phone chain". On the hanger were all kinds of exquisite trinkets.The shopkeeper saw him staring at the mobile phone chain, and introduced him enthusiastically.

The so-called customized mobile phone chains are like the custom-made name tags at the school gate when they were young. Various name tags were made in advance, and then they were strung together according to the names of different people to become a unique chain.However, this boutique must be more particular than the name tag. Besides the name tag, it also prepares all kinds of trinkets inlaid with various crystals. Although Cheng Xia thinks these are more like glass, they are still made. It is very smooth and translucent, and the various gradient colors inside are like paint falling into clear water and stretched out, floating and light, very beautiful.

Cheng Xia randomly picked out a few trinkets he liked, and the shopkeeper happily took them over and asked, "Customer, do you want to write your own name tag or use our font?"

"I can't write."

The shopkeeper explained: "No, you write directly on the paper, and our master will rub the words on the nameplate, and it will not be bad at all."

Cheng Xia became interested and asked the shopkeeper for rubbing paper to write.He originally wanted to write his own name, but the moment he wrote the pen, he accidentally wrote the word "Shi". Cheng Xia was stunned for a moment, but he continued to drink three dots of water, followed by "Xu".

There are two words printed on that piece of paper—Shi Xu.

The shopkeeper took a look at the paper, praised Cheng Xia's character, and then asked: "Is this the only one? If you are not satisfied, you can change it."

Cheng Xia came back to his senses, looked at the word Shi Xu on the rubbing paper, and suddenly changed his mind.

He carefully studied the two familiar words, and felt that he had just written too casually, and many places looked imperfect, so he nodded and said, "Give me another piece of paper, and I still need a draft."

He brought a piece of rubbing paper and a piece of blank paper for drafting, and Cheng Xia wrote on the draft paper.

One vertical and one horizontal fold, Cheng Xia wrote this time with more care than last time, and it is also much more beautiful.But this time it is still not the word "Chengxia", but the more heroic "Shixu".

Cheng Xia still felt that the writing was not good enough this time, so he practiced a row on the draft paper before finally finding the feeling, and then wrote it stroke by stroke on the rubbing paper.

When - 溆.

The shopkeeper almost fell asleep seeing him practicing calligraphy so seriously, but he was too embarrassed to call him "almost", so he had to leave directly to look at other business.But when he picked up the rubbing paper again, the shopkeeper exclaimed, "Oh, this one looks much better than before."

Cheng Xia smiled and said, "This is the one."

The shopkeeper picked up the rubbing paper and went to the back of the shop: "Okay. The master will be able to engrave it soon, why don't you go to other places first?"

Cheng Xia waved his hands, ready to wait here.

At this time, Shi Xu's call came in suddenly: "Where are you, Cheng Xia? It's almost twelve o'clock, don't you want to watch the fireworks?"

"Isn't it forbidden to set off fireworks in urban areas?"

"No, there are areas in the city where fireworks can be set off. Those areas surround the square. When the time comes, you will be able to see fireworks on all sides in the square. Otherwise, why do you think there are so many people in the square? Everyone comes to watch the fireworks. "

Cheng Xia is in a dilemma, his mobile phone chain is not ready yet: "I bought something and I'm waiting in the store, I'll be here soon."

"Okay, I'll wait for you at the gate of the mall."

Fortunately, what the shopkeeper said was right, soon the master carved the name plate, Cheng Xia picked up the stringed mobile phone chain, and ran towards the gate of the mall.

At 23:59, the host of the Spring Festival Gala on the big screen began to count down. People in the square stopped wandering around. Everyone looked up at the big screen. Thousands of people counted together. The voices of the hoarse middle-aged people are like water droplets flowing into the ocean, and there is no difference, only the rumbling harmony grows a little bit.

It was still too late for Cheng Xia to come. He was still in the shopping mall when he heard people counting in unison in the square. When he reached the gate, the last "one" resounded through the sky, and the fuses of the fireworks were ignited, and the fireworks on all sides went "boom— —” The ground exploded, and the rain of fireworks in all directions blew up the night, and the night was illuminated by the brilliant fireworks, flickering and roaring above people's heads.

Cheng Xia stopped at the gate, looked up at the grand scene, his eyes were full of fireworks, shining brightly.

Someone behind him seemed to tap him on the shoulder.Cheng Xia couldn't hear the sound in the boiling crowd, he could only feel that someone reached out and held his shoulder.

Cheng Xia turned her head and found that it was Shi Xu who caught her, and he was talking in her ear, but Cheng Xia couldn't hear him at all.Shi Xu had no choice but to hold his hand directly and let Cheng Xia come with him.

Shi Xu pulled Cheng Xia out of the crowd, and they were now at the overpass on the street, away from the crowd, and finally they could hear each other's words.

Shi Xu stretched out his hand to show Cheng Xia the result of more than two hours of shopping - a whole bag of snacks.Since it has to be packed in a bag, it is naturally impossible to have those hot snacks, but the large portion of small cakes and several large jars of jerky still make up for this shortcoming.

Cheng Xia was stunned: "Did you buy food all night?"

"Yes." Shi Xu himself ate while walking, leaving so much storage at the same time his stomach was full. He leaned on the railing and recommended to Cheng Xia: "That spicy beef jerky is delicious. The beef in it is not the kind of fake meat made of flour, and the seasoning is very fragrant, but it is really spicy."

When Cheng Xia found the can of beef jerky, he opened the package, picked up a piece, put it in his mouth, and chewed it a few times.

"The cream of this cake is delicious, eat it quickly, or it will collapse..."

"The cookies are good, but too sweet..."

"Huamei is picked up at the convenience store, so it should be like that..."

It can be seen that Shi Xu is really in a good mood after releasing the wind, otherwise he wouldn't chatter abnormally.It was a bitter summer, and before he finished chewing the beef jerky, there was another row of food piled up in front of him, which made him unable to resist opening his mouth and mumbled, "Wait a minute..."

The fireworks in the sky are still ringing, but they are not as dense as the one just after zero o'clock. Instead, one explodes from time to time, as if deliberately trying to scare people.

Shi Xu turned on the phone, only to find that Xu Ziya actually sent himself a text message saying sorry after hanging up the phone, but Shi Xu was no longer so depressed at this time, even if his parents didn't come back, he had a good New Year's Eve happy.

Shi Xu rested his elbows on the railing, the crowd watching the square gradually dispersed, the wind on the bridge blew past his ears, vaguely brought Cheng Xia's words.

"...delivered late."

Shi Xu didn't hear clearly, turned around and asked Cheng Xia: "You just said..."

Before he finished talking, he saw Cheng Xia handing over a string of chains, with two or three small ornaments attached to them, and they jingled as soon as they were shaken.

Shi Xu shook the chain: "This?"

Cheng Xia: "The mobile phone chain, I gave it to you, to repay your grammar book."

In fact, Cheng Xia looked at the chain with a guilty conscience. After all, the process of buying the mobile phone chain was too casual, and it seemed that he had dealt with it casually.Cheng Xia touched the tip of his nose and coughed lightly: "I just bought it casually, or if you have any gift you want, tell me, and I will give it to you."

Shi Xu's attention from looking at the mobile phone chain was drawn back by Cheng Xia's words, he looked at Cheng Xia's lightly closed brows and eyes, and the fireworks all over the sky covered him with a layer of brilliance.

Why is it so cute.When Shi Xu thought about it, he couldn't help curling the corners of his mouth.

Shi Xu deliberately raised his voice and laughed: "Are you serious? Then I want you to get up early for a week and accompany me for a morning run..."

Cheng Xia's face instantly changed as if he had swallowed a fly, and he interrupted him abruptly, saying firmly: "I'm joking!"