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On New Year's Day, it snowed in City C.

After all, it is a big festival. Although it is not as grand as the Chinese New Year, it is also full of joy.

C University had a three-day vacation. When the weather turned cold, people became less aggressive. At noon, Lin Youqi and Shen Wanyi came over to eat together.Xia Chen made a pot of hot soup with the mandarin duck hot pot he just bought. Thinly sliced ​​mutton, squid, beef, tripe, fish balls, meat balls, and various vegetables were neatly placed in a small plate, and one side was delicious. The bottom of the red oil pan is hot and spicy.One side is the bottom of the clear soup pot. Although the baby is small, he occupies the side of the clear soup by himself. With a finger pointing, Xia Chen knows what he wants to eat, so he boils it and puts it in his small bowl.

Lu Zhixu couldn't understand Xia Chen's way of caring for the baby so much, he snorted coldly, picked up two pieces of tripe, and burned his tongue, very upset.

"Teacher, let's try the clear soup too." Xia Chen scooped up a baby's favorite beef ball from the clear soup, and put it in Lu Zhixu's bowl.

Lu Zhixu frowned and took a bite, with a displeased face: "I don't like to eat this."

"Then try mutton. Beijing hot mutton can also be served in clear soup. The teacher should like it."

When Xia Chen and Lu Zhixu were talking, Lin Youxi and Shen Wanyi, who were discussing where they would go during the winter vacation, stopped talking and looked at Lu Zhixu together.Professor Lu watched Xia Chen burn the mutton with a face of reluctance, turned his head and saw Lin Youxi looking at him with a half-smile, and immediately glared: "Pervert Lin, what are you looking at?"

Lu Zhixu didn't call everyone around him by name, for example, he called Xu Xu an old hooligan, and when he was unhappy, he called Lin Youxi a pervert.

Professor Lin, whom he called a pervert, shrugged with an innocent face: "I didn't look at you, I was talking to Wanyi."

Lu Zhixu obviously didn't believe it, snorted, and added that Xia Chen had already put the hot mutton into his bowl: "Teacher, eat while it's hot."

Lu Zhixu reluctantly stopped talking, Lin Youxi and Shen Wanyi chatted about hot pot again, both of them are spicy people, but Shen Wanyi likes hot and sour, Lin Youqi likes Sichuan spicy, They all have eaten a lot of delicacies, and they can talk about the delicacies from all over the world.Among the several hot dishes Xia Chen cooked, there was a dish of twice-cooked pork, which contained dried fragrant and fermented soybeans. Shen Wanyi liked the Sichuan-style fermented soybeans in it, so she had no image when picking among the dishes with chopsticks.

After dinner, a few people gathered a table of cards——Shen Wanyi said mahjong ice hands, Xia Chen moved to the corner of the living room as a decorative wrought iron round table, covered with fluffy tablecloths, Shen Wanyi and Lu Zhixu sat on the sofa On the night, a few people played Doudizhu. Xia Chen held baby Lu Jiaming in his arms, and sat beside Lu Zhixu to watch him play. Baby Lu Jiaming held a kitten in his arms, and looked curiously at the cards in his father's hand .

The comfortable and warm environment of the Lu family makes people want to leave. Seeing that it is getting dark, Shen Wanyi is carrying a large bag of things, including a glass bottle of fermented soybeans, a small bag of dried radish with sauce, and a small jar of sauerkraut. And a small jar of fermented bean curd, standing at the door saying goodbye, but reluctant to leave, Lu Zhixu's face was very ugly, and he urged Lin Youxi several times: "Take this woman away!"

In the end, Xia Chen said: "Anyway, there is nothing to do when we go back. Teacher Lin and Sister Shen can stay and play. It doesn't matter if we go back tomorrow."

Before he finished speaking, Shen Wanyi and Lin Youqi said in unison, "Okay."

When Xia Chen was making dinner, Shen Wanyi wanted to help, but Xia Chen said no, so Lawyer Shen could only sit in the dining room and watch Xia Chen cook. The Lu family's dining room is very comfortable, with warm and bright lights, and the distance between the kitchen and the kitchen. The glass doors are wide and almost interlinked.

He is indeed a very eye-catching young man, with a tall and straight figure and a warm temperament. Just a silhouette standing there makes people feel reliable.

Shen Wanyi watched with emotion.

After a while, Lu Zhixu and Lin Youxi finished playing chess and ran to the dining room. The baby followed behind. Several people ran to the dining room. Shen Wanyi and Lin Youxi were talking, teasing the baby from time to time. Zhixu also chatted, the dining room was very lively, and with Xia Chen interjecting a sentence or two from time to time, it looked like a complete and warm family.

The people sitting in this bright dining room are all mature adults with decent careers, and they are all very beautiful in the eyes of outsiders.They all have more or less such a past, so they didn't stay with their families on this New Year's Eve.

However, this lively night, the warm dining room, the warm aroma of the food, and the sound of vegetables being stir-fried in the pot all gave them an illusion, as if all the bitterness and suffering in the past had gone away, and they lived in a warm and bright place. of the moment.

This kind of warmth can only be given by the family, no matter how good a restaurant or house is, it cannot be given.

Only when you sit there, talking lively with the people around you, waiting for the food to be served, your heart is at ease, you don’t have to worry about insomnia at night, you don’t have to worry about which restaurant to eat for breakfast, you know , I just need to sit here.

This is home.

Whether there is a strong wind outside, heavy snow, or howling wind, it has nothing to do with you. You are staying at home right now, so warm and safe.

This is the stability of the present world.

Why are you afraid of fleeting years?

Lunch is hearty, dinner is very homely, hot fish head tofu soup, pickled fish that has become Xia Chen's special dish, dried bacon and radish with local flavor, fried chicken with winter bamboo shoots, stir-fried lettuce slices, and a dish Eight-treasure spinach, tender and refreshing, contains mushrooms, winter bamboo shoots, dried shrimps, shrimps...the appearance is very beautiful, and the baby will "wow" when it sees it.

The fish head tofu soup was served last. Xia Chen first came out of the kitchen with the fried chicken with winter bamboo shoots. Holding a pair of chopsticks in his hand, when he got to the table, he picked up a piece of winter bamboo shoots and handed it to Lu Zhixu's mouth.

"Our 'Feng Gao' is not salty, it's all sweet, and there are a lot of red beans in it..."

While talking to Lin Youqi, Lu Zhixu turned his head away, ate the piece of winter bamboo shoot, chewed it a few times, raised his eyebrows, and said, "Not bad, very fragrant."

After saying this, he continued to chat with Lin Youxi about "Feng Cake" like a normal person: "When I was a child, I always thought it would be better without red beans. I don't like sweet things... What were you looking at just now?"

After all, Queen Mother Lin is Queen Mother Lin. She was only surprised for a moment, then returned to normal, waved her hand and said, "I didn't see anything."

Shen Wanyi, who was on the side, had already endured internal injuries from laughing.

Of course, the most embarrassing moment is when you sleep at night.

A few people played poker until 10:30, and they dispersed. Xia Chen went to check on the baby, and came back to allocate their own rooms: Shen Wanyi slept in the guest room, Lin Youxi slept in Xia Chen's bedroom...

Shen Wanyi, who usually looks like an intellectual woman, has a lot of gossip, narrow-mindedness, and tricks at critical moments.

After allocating the room, Xia Chen and Lu Zhixu sent them upstairs to sleep. She walked to the door of her room, turned around suddenly, and pointed at Xia Chen and Lu Zhixu in a gesture that was definitely not what a 35-year-old woman should have. Lu Zhixu shouted: "I see! The two of you sleep in the same bed!"

After shouting, she rushed into her room, locked the door, and laughed earth-shatteringly.

Even Xia Chen, at this moment, could only face the door, blushing silently.

Maybe he was embarrassed by Shen Wanyi's words, but until he came out of the bathroom, Lu Zhixu still didn't say a word.

Xia Chen sat on the bed, looking at an original law code.

Because Lu Zhixu was not used to the bed in Xia Chen's room, Xia Chen slept in Lu Zhixu's bedroom these days.

The impact of this is obvious. There are more books Xia Chen is reading on Lu Zhixu's bedside, and a pair of toothbrushes, a pair of mouthwash cups, and a pair of face towels are placed in the bathroom...

Lu Zhixu came out of the bathroom, put on his pajamas, and walked to the bed.

He didn't go to bed, but sat on the edge of the bed.

"I have something to tell you." He said to Xia Chen like this.

Xia Chen closed the book, put it back on the bedside table, and looked at him intently.

Professor Lu's expression was cramped.

He's not one to put certain words on his lips, and he said, "You said, you started early, uh..."

"I like you." Xia Chen continued the word for him lightly, he looked into Lu Zhixu's eyes and said, "I have liked Teacher since a long time ago."

Lu Zhixu hesitated for a moment, as if he was considering his words.

"You, when did you start to realize that you... like men?"

He is not a conservative person, he is a law-study, the most open-minded and rigorous, his best friend Xu Xu is gay...

"I don't like men." Xia Chen said frankly.

Lu Zhixu looked at Xia Chen in surprise.

Xia Chen also looked at him quietly.

He was sitting cross-legged on the bed, the neckline of his pajamas was open, and a large chest was exposed, but he didn't know that this person was sometimes sophisticated and indifferent, and sometimes critical, but most of the time, he was simply naive.

Yes, that is naivety.

Xia Chen rarely used this word to describe others.

The last time he described people like this, it was to describe that Lu Feixia who was wanton and jovial.

Innocence is not pure, but clean and natural from the bottom of his heart. He is not ignorant of the dangers of the world, and he is not an expert who jumps out of the mundane. He just knows what he wants better than anyone else.He lived a clean life, surrounded by three or five friends, laughing and cursing, without false words.He is not greedy, ugly, or worldly.

He is the light that Xia Chen sees occasionally, a subtle and cold beam of light, the light has no shape, so it is difficult for you to approach, the light has no color, so too many people can't realize how good he is.

Xia Chen will never let this beam of light fly away from his sight. He has lived alone since he was very young, like a trapped animal struggling alone in the mud, isolated and helpless.One day he crawled out, forgetting what he really wanted.

He has no relatives, no confidant, he is valued by Li Zhurong and cultivated by Xia Zhifei, but he is still lonely with nothing.

When he was very young, he was thinking that if he had someone he liked in the future, he would always guard that person, protect him with all his strength, and give him the best things, just like his father did to his mother .Let him have a stable life and a life of worry-free life.