Jigsaw puzzle

Li Ran woke up alone the next day, and the place next to the bed was empty, which seemed to remind him that the ambiguity last night might be a dream.

When Li Ran was staring at the neat quilt in a daze, Han Yicheng pushed the door in. He had just finished washing his hair, and Li Ran's towel was on top of his wet hair.

"Why do you have such long hair?" Li Ran asked him.

When Han Yicheng came to Li Ran's house for the first time, Li Ran wanted to ask him this question.Han Yicheng's hair length is just on the edge of the longest short hair for normal men. If it is two centimeters longer, he will be classified as a killer or an artist. In short, he is incompatible with his scientific research status.

"I don't like barbershops," Han Yicheng concluded, "this is just right."

"You know you can't cut your hair in the first month?" Li Ran raised the corner of his mouth and asked him, "It's just right now, who knows if I can watch it in a month's time?"

Han Yicheng didn't seem to have thought of this level, he was stunned for a moment, went to the mirror and smoothed his hair, as if he was seriously thinking about this issue.

Li Ran walked over and looked at the mirror for a while, then patted him, "Don't worry, wait until it grows a bit longer, and tie a little tug at the back, how cute~"

Han Yicheng brushed his hair up and made gestures, imitating the hairstyle Li Ran mentioned in his mind, and finally shook his head and said, "Ugly."

On the morning of the first day of the new year, Zhang Lingyu put all the dumplings made yesterday into the pot, and put the last plate on the table.The heating temperature in Li Ran's house is low, and the freshly cooked dumplings are steaming on the dining table, which looks like a Chinese New Year atmosphere.

Li Weiguo was instructed to take out the Laba garlic that had been soaked years ago, and divide the green garlic cloves into different small dishes.

The three of them were all ready at the dining table, and only Li Ran was left in the bedroom to make a phone call.Han Yicheng glanced in the direction of the bedroom, and when he looked back, several dumplings were caught in the bowl by Zhang Lingyu.

"Xiao Han hurry up and eat," Zhang Lingyu urged with a smile, "Li Ran is calling his elders at home to pay New Year's greetings, so don't wait for him."

Han Yicheng responded, picked out the whitest dumpling from the bowl and bit it down, the hot sweet sugar water was so hot that he spit it out all at once.He originally wanted to hold back and swallow it directly, but the candy that turned into water was too hot, and Han Yicheng's expression was a little grim for a moment.

Zhang Lingyu was startled by this movement, and quickly offered him a glass of cold water.She looked into Han Yicheng's bowl and immediately laughed.

"Hey, why are you so honest, kid! Those dumplings look so white, they are filled with sugar!"

Han Yicheng nodded in a little embarrassment, and ate the remaining dumplings.At this time, Li Ran just came out of the bedroom and started laughing when he saw this scene.

"Old Han, you are going to be lucky," he said exaggeratedly, "The first one will get the candy, you should buy a lottery ticket!"

Han Yicheng also smiled, and bit another clove of garlic.

Li Weiguo's Laba Garlic Sour has a sweet taste in it. Han Yicheng has never tasted such a taste before, and he ate several at once.

"Hey, Xiao Han," Li Weiguo said suddenly, "Have you... been abroad?"

Han Yicheng nodded: "I went out to play when I was young."

Li Weiguo became interested: "Where have you been? Was it fun?"

"Uh... Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom..." Han Yicheng recalled for a while, "It was... fun to go there when I was young, but later it was all related to work, so I didn't have a chance to play."

"Look," Li Weiguo happily raised his eyebrows at Zhang Lingyu, "Let me just say, it's so difficult to go abroad, Xiao Han has been to so many places when he was a child!"

Zhang Lingyu rolled her eyes: "He can speak English, can you speak it?"

Li Weiguo froze halfway, and retorted in a low voice: "We are going to Thailand, where do we need to speak English..."

"You two can go if you want," Li Ran interjected, "With my Uncle Chen's level of education, it's not much better!"

"Yes!" Li Weiguo cheered up again, "At least I can still say hello! He's even more of an idiot!"

After eating, Han Yicheng thanked the old couple, and seemed to want to leave, but was dragged back into the house by Zhang Lingyu.

"How can you go back and stay by yourself on the first day of the new year!" Zhang Lingyu frowned and criticized, "Wait until the third day and let Li Ran go back with you."

Li Ran snickered for a while watching Han Yicheng's dilemma, but didn't intervene.Sure enough, within a short while, Han Yicheng obediently entered the kitchen with the bowl and chopsticks.

"Li Ran!" Zhang Lingyu yelled sideways, "Hurry up and help wash the dishes! What's the matter with making Xiao Han work all the time!"

Li Ran pouted, put on a down jacket and entered the kitchen.He found that Han Yicheng was actually wearing Zhang Lingyu's work sleeves, and the bright colors made him look ridiculous.

Han Yicheng was very serious about cleaning the dishes. Li Ran folded his arms and looked at him for a while, and said, "Your skill is no match for my mother, unless I help you play." He said with a smirk, "But I don't want to play. Ha ha ha ha!"

Han Yicheng glanced at him, but didn't answer.Li Ran asked unwillingly: "Don't you want to know why?"

Han Yicheng: "Why?"

Li Ran smiled again, "Now I have a labor force to wash the dishes for me." He pointed outside, "By the way, I can also play chess with the old man, how nice!"

Han Yicheng also understood that where he was accompanying Li Ran's family, it was clearly Li Ran's family that was accompanying him during the New Year.I and Li Ran are not related, so I ran to someone's house during the New Year's Eve. If a relative came to visit, it would be as inappropriate as possible.

But even though he knew what he was doing was inappropriate, he still hadn't left.

Counting from the year Han Yanan died to now, his parents haven't contacted him for ten years.Every Spring Festival in these ten years, Han Yicheng watched TV by himself, and then slept alone.

He even bought all brands of quick-frozen dumplings.

He really wanted to thank Li Ran, but he didn't know where to start, so as not to make himself look so unfamiliar.

"What I... said last night is true," Han Yicheng said hesitantly, "I really never let go of flowers."

"I see," Li Ran said with a smile, "You are so cowardly, you ran over and hugged me and won't let go!"

After Li Ran finished speaking, he suddenly thought of how he rubbed against someone's arms on the bed last night, so he stopped talking.

Before Han Yicheng could respond, he hurriedly asked, "Why? Were Xueba busy studying when he was young?"

Han Yicheng hesitated for a moment: "It's about right."

"No wonder what Gargamel is," Li Ran nodded, "I haven't had time to watch cartoons since I was a child, right?"

Han Yicheng gave a "hmm", and Li Ran suddenly felt that he looked very wronged, so he couldn't hold back and smoothed Han Yicheng's hair with his hands.

"Sure enough, not everyone can be a scientist," Li Ran said, "It's been hard work."

Han Yicheng was comforted unexpectedly, and said to Li Ran as if he remembered something: "Yesterday you—"

Li Ran broke out in a cold sweat, he almost made up the last few words: Why kiss me?

Fortunately, Li Weiguo's voice suddenly sounded outside, urging Li Ran to wash the dishes and Han Yicheng to play chess with him.

At this time, Han Yicheng was already washing the last bowl. He glanced at Li Ran, and finally wiped his hands and went out before finishing the remaining few words.

Li Ran was dazed in the kitchen for a while, until there was a knock on the door, before he ran out to open the door.

It was Li Ran's two cousins ​​who came, one of them was holding a large box of apples, and he couldn't bear it and threw it on the ground as soon as he entered the door.

Zhang Lingyu smiled and asked Li Ran to carry the apple to the balcony. The older one greeted her, and then shouted to the back room: "Uncle! I and Xiaoer are here to wish you New Year's greetings"!

"Stop barking, Ah Peng, he can't hear you," Zhang Lingyu said with a smile, "Your ears are blocked by chess pieces!"

"Such a addiction alone?" Li Peng curiously walked into the back room, and said as he walked, "Uncle, you said you want someone to accompany you—"

When he walked into the room, he happened to meet Han Yicheng who was looking out. Li Peng was stunned: "This is it?"

"This is Xiao Han," Li Weiguo said with a smile, "Li Ran specially found a chess friend for me."

Han Yicheng stood up, shook hands with Li Peng, and sat back to his original place.Li Weiguo waved to him and said, "When Dapeng comes, let him accompany me. Xiao Han, you can go and play. It's tiring to waste time with me."

Li Peng and Li Chen came over to look at the chess game, and Li Peng smiled, "Uncle, you are about to lose again just looking at it," he said, "I will follow you in this game, and you will also lose."

Han Yicheng gave up his seat and went to sit next to Li Ran on the sofa.He had just seen the other two sons of Lao Li's family before he realized how important Zhang Lingyu's excellent appearance genes were.

Li Peng was bigger than Li Ran, looking like a simple and honest middle-aged man.And Li Chen and Han Yicheng are the same age, and they have already started to put on weight at the age of 30. They have a flat face and smile like a little Maitreya Buddha.

"Exercise more, Xiao Er." Zhang Lingyu looked at Li Chen with some concern, "You are the same age as Xiao Han. Look at your stomach. You don't look like a 30-year-old."

"Ah?" Li Chen was also shocked, and turned to look at Han Yicheng, "I thought you were Aran's junior just now, are you thirty?"

"Well," Han Yicheng nodded, "I just celebrated my birthday last week."

"You have to focus on losing weight," Zhang Lingyu urged, "If you really can't, go and take a few lessons with Li Ran. Your foundation is not too bad. Now that you are like this, I think it's hard for a matchmaker to find a girl for you!"

Li Chen said with a bitter face: "It's not about sports. I'm not like Aran. I'm supported by your excellent genes. Except for Li Ran, there is no one in our old Li family who is not short and short."

"Mom, don't worry about my brother," Li Ran interjected, "Look at Han Yicheng's arm, the bones are bones and the flesh is flesh, you can see that he doesn't exercise at all." After he finished speaking, he patted Li Chen again, "Don't be afraid Brother, let me introduce you to a girl~"

"Forget it, forget it," Li Chen waved his hand, "The girls over there are too fierce, I can't hold it, the lesson still has to be learned... By the way," Li Chen changed the subject, "Aran, what kind of girl do you like?" Ah? Why haven't I seen you talk about a girlfriend?"

Li Ranxin said that you don't know. Although I haven't dated a girlfriend, I have dated more boyfriends than all of you combined.

He thought for a while, opened his fingers and said while counting: "First, it must look good, and then it must be interesting. You can play with everything, and it's interesting to chat." Finally, Li Ran slapped his hands suddenly, "It's better to be a few years younger than me." age!"

Han Yicheng didn't respond at all, but Li Chen said bluntly, "Then you're looking for someone based on yourself, aren't you?"

Li Ran was stunned by Li Chen's words. He never thought that his ideal type was drawn according to his own model.

"Couldn't it be possible that none of them can be negotiated," Zhang Lingyu interjected quietly, "It's like that jigsaw puzzle, both pieces are convex, so it's strange if they fit together!"

Li Ran always felt that the connotation of the conversation just now was profound, and just as he was about to ponder it carefully, he heard Li Weiguo yelled "Aw".

"Win!!" Li Weiguo said excitedly, "Look, is he a general, huh?"

Li Peng obviously couldn't believe that he lost to Li Weiguo, and it was on the premise that Han Yicheng made a good start for him.After confirming again and again that it was a foregone conclusion, he praised unwillingly: "My old uncle's chess skills have improved a lot!"

"That's not true," Li Weiguo was quite proud, "Xiao Han is here to practice with me every day for the past two days, and he must learn something from fighting against the master!"

Zhang Lingyu kept the two brothers here to eat dumplings, and wanted Li Weiguo to cook fish in the evening.But Li Peng had seniors and children, and Li Chen had to go back to accompany his parents. They left in a hurry as soon as it got dark, so Zhang Lingyu had to coax Li Weiguo into the kitchen and let him cook quickly.

Li Weiguo's cooking was no worse than Zhang Lingyu's. It turned out that when Zhang Lingyu was pregnant, he basically cooked all the fancy dishes.It's just that in recent years, he has grown old and gradually become lazy. Only Zhang Lingyu asks him to do it.

After dinner, Zhang Lingyu tossed a lot of things from the kitchen and asked Li Ran and Han Yicheng to help.

On the table was a large pot of hawthorn, a small pot of strawberries, a small pot of white grapes, and a small bowl of red bean paste.

Zhang Lingyu instructed Li Ran and Han Yicheng to pit the hawthorn, stuff it with red bean paste, and thread it into small skewers like other fruits.

Li Weiguo cooked sesame rock candy in the kitchen, wrapped the syrup around the skewers, and patted them on the chopping board.

The temperature in Li Ran's kitchen is low, and now it's an excellent environment for making candied haws.Li Weiguo found a cardboard box, and put the quick-formed candied haws on it. The homemade candied haws are small, and the box was filled in a short while.

"Come, come," Zhang Lingyu greeted happily, "Come and eat, it's done!"

Han Yicheng pulled out a hawthorn and put it in his mouth. The four senses of sour, sweet, cool and waxy stimulated the taste buds at the same time. It was not delicious.

Li Ran is not like Han Yicheng, he makes candied haws at home every Chinese New Year, and he is familiar with what kind of delicious food.When Han Yicheng reached out for the second bunch of hawthorns, Li Ran stuffed a bunch of strawberries into his hand.

"Try this," Li Ran winked at him, "This is definitely better than hawthorn!"

Han Yicheng found out that Zhang Lingyu was really a miraculous woman. He and Li Ran started washing up after ten o'clock in the evening, and Zhang Lingyu went back to the kitchen to work again.

"Your mother..." Han Yicheng hesitated, "Is there really no need for help?"

Li Ran was full of foam, and shook his head vaguely, "No, she will call for someone if needed." He rinsed his mouth and spat into the pool, "She said that she had a lot of free time when she was young, and now she has to work to feel happy .”

Han Yicheng followed Li Ran back to his bedroom, and Li Ran turned his head to look at Han Yicheng as if he suddenly remembered something.

"By the way," Li Ran said, "I also forgot to find pajamas for you yesterday. Didn't you feel bad last night?"

The corner of Han Yicheng's mouth twitched unnaturally. It was more than uncomfortable. He slept extremely sweetly last night. When he woke up in the morning, he found himself hugging Li Ran who was still asleep.

"I..." Han Yicheng looked at Li Ran rummaging through boxes and boxes, and choked out a few words, "I don't feel anything."

"Yeah, how does it feel to drink like that?" Li Ran echoed and took out a set of clothes from the closet, turned around and threw it to Han Yicheng, "This is my biggest pajamas, can you try it on?"

Han Yicheng took the clothes, made gestures, and looked back at Li Ran, hesitant to speak.

Li Ran raised the corner of his mouth at once: "Brother, change your clothes, don't be silly!"