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Jiang Chu's voice was a little sticky, and he nodded dully looking at the heavy snow all over the sky, "Okay."

He ate lunch so late that at night when the old man wanted to wash his hands and make soup, he was stopped by two boys.

"I'm really not hungry, grandma, take a rest. Besides, don't you have leftover dumplings at noon? If you're hungry at night, you can continue to eat." Gu Zhi said bluntly, "That much is enough for three days."

He still wants to stay for three days?

Gu Zhi winked at Jiang Chu, Jiang Chu nodded and agreed, "Yes."

The grandma said helplessly: "There is no one who only eats dumplings for the New Year's Eve dinner. Besides, that dumpling..." She paused here, probably because she wanted to say that the dumplings were not delicious or something else, But because the dumpling maker was right in front of her, she still took the kid's face into consideration, and said, "It doesn't matter if you're full."

Jiang Chu: "..."

Grandma doesn't have to make things difficult for herself.

"Then I'll do it." Jiang Chu thought for a while, then turned around and asked Gu Zhi, "What do you want to eat?"

Gu Zhi was really not hungry, and he didn't want to go to the hospital for the New Year's Eve, so he said conservatively, "Egg fried rice?"

Grandma: "It's not as good as dumplings."

"Forget it, order takeaway tonight if you're hungry!" Gu Zhi suggested.

"That's okay, but there are very few takeaways on New Year's Eve."

"KFC always has it."

"..."

The old man couldn't stand the two little ones chattering like talking about cross talk, and finally lost the battle. He let them make troubles on their own, and then went to the room to turn on the TV alone, waiting for the Spring Festival Gala to start.

Taking advantage of the time when Gu Zhi and Jiang Chu were going out, she went back to her room and took two red envelopes and put them under the pillow in Jiang Chu's room, with one on the side.

Probably because she was not interested in watching the song and dance program at the party, so she took a rest after a while.

The Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China. At the beginning of the year, in the traditional impression, someone must watch the New Year’s Eve, but to keep the New Year’s Eve must be ignited. Since Gu Zhi just learned from his grandmother what lighting the fire in Jiangchu’s place means, he had no choice but to say Do as you please, and turn on all the lights in the house on your own initiative.

Jiang Chu asked him a little funny, "Do you know what it means to keep the year old?"

He didn't know that Gu Zhi froze, shook his head honestly, and waited for Jiang*Encyclopedia's first online answer.

"It means keeping time."

Gu Zhi: "..."

are you kidding me?

As if aware of someone's loss, Jiang Chu turned off the lights in the living room and said, "Just leave one light on, it's just a formality."

Gu Zhi said "Oh", this person really has no romantic feelings at all.

New Year’s Eve in Jia County is more interesting than in the urban area. Firecrackers are not banned here. When it is still dark, you can hear the crackling of firecrackers from the next door through the door.

Gu Zhi couldn't wait to find out the big bag of fireworks that he bought earlier. Thanks to Gu Xiao, although he has no fixed place, he is always in the urban area. He has never played with such a novel thing since he was a child.

Just listening to the boss say which kind of fireworks will show what kind of effect is fascinated, seeing that the boss's introduction is too emotional, Gu Zhi simply took every kind, which made the children who also came to buy fireworks very excited. Greedy followed them for a few blocks.

However, he only knew the first two of the four words "respect the old and love the young". The child said eagerly, "Brother, can I come and watch when you set off the fireworks?"

"Children can't play with fire." Gu Zhi said rationally, "Playing with fire will wet the bed, and you won't be able to wear your new clothes tomorrow."

Child:"......"

After successfully bluffing them away, Gu Zhi found that Jiang Chu was standing not far away, looking at him with complicated eyes.

Didn't you say you haven't played it?How do you know so clearly?

"What do you think I'm doing? Let's go back and set off the fireworks." Gu Zhi waved at Jiang Chu, and walked back with his bulging bag.

The lighter flickered, Jiang Chu came over and lit the firework stick in Gu Zhi's hand.

The door in the yard was ajar, and there was the sound of firecrackers outside, and the flames of the firework bombs leaked through the crack of the door in colorful flames, echoing the one dancing wildly in Gu Zhi's hand.

This kind of night is rare, it seems very noisy, but it seems to be rare soft and peaceful.

Jiang Chu sat on the topmost step without snow, with one leg bent, one elbow resting on his knee, holding a lighter, in a posture ready to light a fire for Gu Zhi at any time.

The courtyard is open-air, and when the fireworks outside shoot up into the sky, you can see the undulating roofs clearly in the fireworks.

The ever-burning lights were on in every house, but the excitement had nothing to do with him. He looked up, and the lighter was unknowingly tightened by him.

"Jiang Chu." Gu Zhi turned his head away.

At some point, the fireworks in Gu Zhi's hand ran out, and he raised his mouth and asked, "Would you like to have a try?"

Suddenly pulled back to reality, Jiang Chu was a little dazed: "What?"

The next moment, his hand was suddenly lifted and placed on his knee, Gu Zhi took out a firework stick and stuffed it into his hand, saying, "Give me the lighter, I'll light it for you."

"Either light it together, it will definitely look good." Gu Zhi said as he walked down the steps, found a spacious place, poured out the fireworks, and placed them together.

He fidgeted for a while before getting up.

"Does it look good?" Gu Zhi asked.

"..." Jiang Chu nodded in embarrassment.

Even though there was only light but no sound, Gu Zhi still ran habitually covering his ears when the fire was ignited, and when he ran to Jiang Chu's side, he took the long-burned firework stick from his hand.

With a little excitement, he opened his arms and bumped into Jiang Chu.

The fire lights up again, and the pile of fireworks is lit. In a few seconds, the night in the yard is like day. The accumulated fireworks are clustered with flowers of various colors. On the last night, fire trees and silver flowers exploded all over the ground.

Gu Zhi suddenly tightened his hand, kissed his exposed neck like a feather, and whispered, "Happy New Year."

Outside the courtyard, fireworks bombs in the distance, accompanied by the red earth, shook the sky, and countless scattered petals washed and fell, submerging the brightness in the long dark night.

Not long after, a new fluorescent light came on again. Outside the house, I don’t know which family was thriving, and the sound of laughter was blurred in the grand fireworks display.

The yard was silent, and the dim light in the living room cast a blurred silhouette of a teenager. They kissed each other with passionate love.

The brilliance of the galaxy all over the sky can't match the blazing youth.

There was starlight in the eyes of the person in front of him, and his chest heaved violently. Jiang Chu responded in a low voice: "Happy New Year." With a little force on his arm, Gu Zhi fell into his arms.

Saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, we spend it with you.

Very special and memorable.

After standing for a long time, it was still quite cold outside. After the fireworks, the two decided to go back to the house to watch the Spring Festival Gala. After watching for a while, Gu Zhi couldn't sit still. He found that Jiang Chu was more attractive than the sketches of singing and dancing on TV. Pay attention, I don't know if he was too obvious, and soon, Jiang Chu went to the room with the excuse of washing his face.

Gu Zhi happened to call Gu Qian during this spare time. Gu Qian was naturally worried about him, mainly because it was New Year's Eve, so she added some other emotions while worrying.

"Aren't you going to disturb others?" Knowing that Gu Zhi didn't know how to teleport, Gu Qian didn't say anything else.

"probably not."

Gu Zhi thought to himself, I'm so happy, and said, he glanced in the direction of Jiang Chu's room: "There are only him and his grandmother in my classmate's house."

"Then do you have something to eat?" Gu Qian's worry made Gu Zhi a little dumbfounded.

He said: "Yes, I also learned how to make dumplings, and I will make them for you when I come back."

Fearing that Gu Qian would not believe it, he quickly said, "I'll take a picture and show you right now."

Gu Qian had no choice but to tell him to come back tomorrow, not to spend the Spring Festival and birthday outside.

He hung up the phone in a hurry, ran into the kitchen with his slippers on, opened the refrigerator, took a photo and sent it, chatted with Gu Qian, and the countdown to the new year began on TV.

Gu Zhi pushed open the door of the bathroom suspiciously, there was no trace of anyone staying there, and the light was not even turned on.

So he went to the room again, the door was closed, and he stood at the door and knocked.

Benedict...

"Jiang Chu..."

No movement.

Tuk Tuk Tuk...

"Jiangchu..."

Still nothing.

Du Tu Du Du "You won't fall asleep, right? I'm still outside? Jiang Chu, what are you..."

With the word meaning stuck in his mouth, the door was opened from the inside.

Jiang Chu was holding a bunch of things, and it was difficult to hold them with one hand, so he quickly held the things in his hand after he unscrewed the door.

Gu Zhi looked suspiciously at the hard-bound book under the box, and thought, this guy is going to compete with me in writing questions to welcome the New Year.

Jiang Chu originally wanted to go to the living room, but when he saw Gu Zhi standing at the door, he gave him a way and said, "Come in."

Gu Zhi glanced at his desk curiously, and sure enough, it was full of books.

......

New Year's Eve!

......

He wanted to ask if I could refuse, but when he turned around and saw Jiang Chu's rare eyebrows smiling, he swallowed the word "refusal" on his lips.

Holding a little bit of hope, he tapped on the exposed corner of the hard board cover and said, "Is this supposed to be for me?"

Jiang Chu nodded and said, "Do you want to see it?"

Gu Zhixin said that he didn't really want to.

However, he miscalculated, it was not a set of questions, nor a notebook, but a sketchbook.

Gu Zhi: "..."

He stared at Jiang Chu suspiciously, and said full of doubts: "You gave me this, I don't even know how to draw!"

"Look inside." Jiang Chu lightly raised his chin to signal.

Amid Jiang Chu's expectation and his own depression, he hesitated to open——

The sketchbook is not new. On the contrary, it has been used up from beginning to end. There are about 20 sketchbooks, each of which is the same person——Gu Zhi

The more Gu Zhi turned back, the tighter his eyebrows frowned. Jiang Chu is a very good painter, and every picture is very vivid.

There is the expression of him biting the pen holder with his chin, scratching his head and writing questions, his back view rushing on the court in physical education class, their silhouettes refracted by the setting sun as they walked side by side under the camphor tree, and his knee raising in the school sports meeting Sitting on the sidelines shouting and cheering anxiously.

There is even a picture of Gu Zhi handing him an umbrella a long time ago, then turning around and running into the rain.

Gu Zhi turned back page by page, and the time was getting closer and closer. The last picture was a picture of them watching a horror movie side by side in the dormitory, and there was a bag of opened potato chips at the corner of the table.

Before I knew it, it had been so long.

"New Year's gift?" Gu Zhi stared at the still boy in the picture and whispered, "I didn't even prepare it for you."

Jiang Chu nodded and shook his head. He picked up the square box next to him, handed it to Gu Zhi, and said, "This is a New Year's gift, and that is a birthday present."

"Huh?" Gu Zhi was a little confused.

He stared blankly at the box in his hand. He remembered that he hadn't told Jiang Chu about his birthday. His birthday was very special. February 2th, Valentine's Day in the West, is a festival that can be celebrated under the guise of birthdays for couples. .

But after coming, he was suddenly satisfied.

As the saying goes, there is an insatiable desire for aggression and excessive demands, and he is quite satisfied with how he is now.

This was probably an unexpected surprise. He suppressed the joy in his heart, opened the box and asked, "Why is it so clearly divided?"

What he meant was, why is the box a New Year's gift, and the picture album must be a birthday present?Probably because his expression was too realistic, Jiang Chu saw the clue at a glance, he said: "I bought this one in the afternoon, and that one was prepared for a long time. I thought I could give it to you only after school started. Fortunately..."

Jiang Chu lowered his eyes, and there was a clear light in his eyes, but he stopped abruptly before he finished speaking.

"Fortunately what?" Gu Zhi couldn't wait to ask.

After a moment of silence, Jiang Chu said, "Fortunately, I finished painting a few days ago, otherwise I wouldn't be able to give it to you now." Jiang Chu glanced at the album and said, "Maybe you don't lack other things. .”

I don't know if it's important, but when Jiang Chu was talking, he kept his head down, Gu Zhi smiled and said, "Well, I just lack a picture book."

If it weren't for this drawing, Gu Zhi would actually not remember when the content in the painting happened. He always said that people's memory is limited, and you have to remember useful things, and many things that are not so useful will be gradually forgotten. In the past, he thought that as long as he remembered Jiang Chu, he didn't need to save those mottled or glamorous pasts too deliberately.

Until those black and white lines came into view, one page after another, it was like a frame of a movie frame was frozen, and the blurred past was re-covered, making it gradually clear.

What he didn't remember, someone had already engraved it in his heart.

Gu Zhi has received all kinds of birthday presents since he was a child. Some friends bought them impromptu, some carefully prepared them after he hinted at them, and some asked him what he wanted and gave them directly on his birthday. .

But no one has ever prepared such a gift without him saying a word, which is more precious than any figure in the window and game console on the display stand.

Only Jiang Chu would understand.

He sat cross-legged on the bed, and when he opened a page, he remembered a certain scene. When he thought of it, he couldn't wait to pull Jiang Chu to recall it. At the end of the memory, he would always add a sentence, "Let me see your hand, how did you draw it so well?" of."

In his tireless fuss, Jiang Chu was finally sure that he had given the right gift, he pulled the corner of his mouth and slowly raised it, pinched Gu Zhi's cheek as if talking to a child and said, "Just as long as you like it. "

How could you not like it, no one doesn't like surprises, no one doesn't like being loved.

Gu Zhi asked cautiously while holding the picture album: "How do you know my birthday?"

Jiang Chu frowned and thought for a while: "If you want to know, you will know."

Gu Zhi held the album and did not let go, and went to open the box again: "What about this? What is it?"

In fact, he had already dismantled half of it, but he still couldn't help but want to hear the answer from Jiang Chu.

"It's a camera." Jiang Chu said, "It's the same brand as the one you usually use, but this one is the latest model. I bought it just because I thought of it. Don't tell me if you don't like it."

Gu Zhi became obsessed with photography when he was in junior high school, and has been with the camera since then, just like the relationship between Jiang Chu and paint brushes, how could he not like it.

He couldn't wait to install the lens, and tried to adjust the focus, but Jiang Chu's handsome face just clicked.

He fiddled with the camera for a while, then opened the album again.

One of them is divided into two pictures——

On the front is the content of the winning painting that Jiang Chu drew on the spot during the Nanchuan Art Competition, and on the back is Jiang Chu himself who just finished drawing on the stage. Looking at each other at a distance of a stage.The people around are blurred into one piece, only they are the clear existence of each other.

Gu Zhi at that time must not have known that in Jiang Chu's eyes, he was the morning star falling in the sea of ​​people, the one he could catch a glimpse of at a glance.

Gu Zhi stared at the painting in a daze, and didn't speak for a long time.

Jiang Chu cleaned up the scattered textbooks on the table.

When Jiang Chu came out of the bathroom, there was still a thin layer of mist on his body, and when he opened the door, Gu Zhi blocked his way.

"Do you have a lot of money? Why did you buy me a camera?" He accidentally caught a glimpse of the price when he was looking up the model of the camera, and now he knows that Jiang Chu is not the rich second generation he imagined, and even a little "poor".

He was happy and a little annoyed at the same time, and blocked the door somehow.

"Didn't I just say it, a New Year's gift." Jiang Chu wanted to avoid him, but Gu Zhi stopped him one step ahead, a little angry: "Can I still return the product?"

Jiang Chu was a little strange, he obviously didn't like it just now, why did he just take a shower, and he was about to return the product when he came out.

"Is there a problem with the camera?" Jiang Chu asked.

"No." Gu Zhi said.

"Oh, then the merchant won't refund or exchange it." Compared to Gu Zhi, what he said was reasonable: "Unless you don't like it."

"Of course not." Gu Zhi said, "A New Year's gift, more than 1 yuan, is a bit expensive. Besides, I didn't prepare it for you. I just ate and drank your food." Gritting his teeth, he mumbled and said, "I treat you as a boyfriend, but you treat me as a lover."

Jiang Chu didn't catch a word of what Gu Zhi said later, he said: "You don't need to prepare anything for me, you are here, and." He thought for a while and said: "I am not what you imagined. poverty."

Of course he is not poor, Jiang Xuyang has never asked about the scholarships he has accumulated over the years, he just rarely uses them, if Gu Zhi hadn't come over temporarily, he would have almost forgotten that he still has a lot of savings.

"Are there any questions?" Jiang Chu asked him.

"No more, I'm going to take a shower." Gu Zhi blushed a lot, and hurried into the bathroom.

When he came out, Jiang Chu was leaning on the head of the bed, flipping through an English book in his hand, Gu Zhi asked him curiously, "What book are you reading?"

Jiang Chu put the book upside down on the bedside table and looked down at him. Gu Zhi was a little dazed by his gaze. It might be because the bathroom was too hot and stuffy and his brain was not getting enough oxygen.

He could hear his heartbeat rising.

We may quarrel, we may get angry at each other, we may be awkward, and there will be moments when we don't choose what to say, but no matter what, we will make up as before, and maybe without saying a word, we will know why when we see each other. That person, all the emotions, timidity, hesitation, grievance and sadness are not worth the heartbeat at that moment.

Because I see you, because I like you too.

So, it can only be you, and only you.