Encountering the Koi

This year, Shen Yingqiu did not bring Su Zimo and Shen Ye back to Shen's house for the first time. He felt a little uncomfortable, but he didn't want to see the disgusting eyes of his parents and brother-in-law. It was not so much disgust as fear. Fear……

Fortunately, this year there is an extra pair of father and son who are living treasures. Being pestered by them and Su Zimo and Shen Ye's jealousy, he doesn't have that much thought to think about other things.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, Qingyun hid in the house and slept by the fire, Shen Yingqiu took Su Zimo and the others down the mountain.

I love the three-five-year scenery of the Lantern Festival, the moonlight is beautiful, and the lights are brilliant.The streets are filled with all kinds of lanterns, the smell of Lantern Festival, the shouts of vendors, and the laughter of people, all of which reveal the joy of the festival.

It was the first time for Mu Feng and Mu Nianqing to go down the mountain to this market. Seeing the bustle, they were amazed and surprised at the same time. They walked through the street excitedly. Mu Nianqing pulled Shen Ye and asked this and that; Mu Feng followed Shen Yingqiu, although he was not as excited as his son, but he couldn't hide his playfulness, looking at this and that.

Seeing him like a sheep being let out of the pen, Su Zimo looked at him, speechless for a while.He thought, he was like this wolf in the past, being brought out of the lonely circle by this person in front of him made him feel an unprecedented joy.

Shen Yingqiu looked at Mu Feng and Mu Nianqing, raised her lips and smiled, and said: "In the future, if you want to come to such a place, just tell me and I will accompany you. If you don't understand anything, you can ask me "Light pause: "Actually, you can figure it out after a few visits."

Mu Feng turned his head and smiled: "Qiu'er, you are just a good person."

Shen Yingqiu smiled: "I'm not good."

Yes, he is not good, to be exact, he is selfish; he has his own plans, seeing that he is getting older and the days of his life are getting fewer and fewer, he is thinking of multiple people in front of Su Zimo and Shen Ye , they are not so lonely and boring.

When Su Zimo heard the wolf calling Shen Yingqiu "Qiu'er", he looked at Mu Feng with displeasure and said, "I've warned you many times, don't push yourself too far."

Mu Feng pursed his mouth, it was a festive Chinese New Year, and he didn't want to argue with him, so he gave him a blank look, but he didn't say anything in the end.

Shen Yingqiu looked at the two of them with a helpless smile, and took Su Zimo's arm.Continue to shuttle on this noisy street.

Shadow puppets, selling lanterns and guessing lantern riddles, selling candied haws, making dough, blowing sugar, marionettes, glutinous rice balls...

They stopped at a place selling lanterns, the owner was an acquaintance, the cloth seller across the street, saw that the visitor was an acquaintance, and warmly greeted the visitor: "Hey, it's you two, welcome, look around, look around. "

Su Zimo was expressionless, Shen Yingqiu smiled slightly and said, "Boss has a good memory."

"That's no, don't say anything else, just this handsome young man beside you..." He paused at this point, stroked his beard, looked Su Zimo up and down, and said, "Well, what about this young man, It doesn't look old, ouch, it's really... a strange person, a strange person."

Shen Yingqiu who said this laughed, and said: "What the boss said is very true, my Brother Su is not a strange person." He said with a smile on his face and squinted at Su Zimo.

Su Zimo still had no expression on his face, just stood there looking at the lanterns; the boss nodded and said yes again and again: "No, we are all old, I have gray hair and a lot of beards, you are also better than before. I have wrinkles, but I still look good with your brother Su." The voice of the last sentence was very low.

Hearing this, Shen Yingqiu laughed louder, nodded and said: "Boss, your mouth...is so sweet."

The boss laughed, pointed at the circle of lanterns and said, "Then you can pick whatever you like, and take whatever you like."

At this time, Su Zimo took a lantern with a fox printed on it, and said, "Ye'er."

"Master, you have a good eye, this fox will repay your kindness and sell well." The boss interjected.

Shen Yingqiu smiled and said to Su Zimo: "Then buy this fox to repay your favor."

Su Zimo didn't make a sound, just held the lantern in his hand, but Shen Yingqiu walked around and took a look, picked out a lantern with a koi blessing on it, and said, "Zimo." Looking at the lantern, that There is also a poem on it: "Snow gulls lie down and listen to the Zen monk's chime, and the koi walks to startle the passenger boat." After reading this sentence, Shen Yingqiu laughed, touched Su Zimo with his arm, and said, "Zimo, look at this koi walk." Does it look like we were fishing for a passenger boat?"

Su Zimo looked down and said, "Like."

Shen Yingqiu smiled: "I want this one."

The boss interrupted again, and said with a smile: "This koi fish has been an auspicious thing since ancient times. Everyone likes it. Mr. Shen has a good eye, a good eye." Is it a little bit smaller?"

"Small, you are taller than me now." Shen Yingqiu said with emotion, "I have grown up."

"No, it's been 20 years since you patronized my cloth shop." The boss also said with emotion: "Oh, it's really scary. In a flash, it's gone for 20 years."

After hearing this number, Shen Yingqiu was also surprised, she had been with Zimo for more than [-] years, how fast the days passed.

"Why are there no wolves?" Mu Feng, who came out of the pile of lanterns, asked with a serious face, "I've searched around for several times, but there are no wolves."

The boss laughed when he heard it, and said: "Young master, a wolf, that's not a good thing. It eats people. There is no one who paints a wolf on a lantern." He pointed to the lantern beside him and said, "There is a dog. Do you want it?"

Mu Feng "cut": "The wolf is good too!"

The boss smiled awkwardly when he heard this. After all, the visitors were all guests, so he didn't argue with him, and nodded, "Yes, yes, but I don't have wolves here. Why don't you go to another place to see?"

Mu Feng snorted, shook his sleeves and walked away, still muttering: "I don't believe that there are so many lantern sellers all over the street and none of them sell wolves."

Shen Yingqiu looked at Mu Feng's distant figure, then at Su Zimo, thought for a while, and asked, "Boss, can you make a lantern with a wolf on it?"

"Young Master Shen, to tell you the truth, my lanterns are all made by others. We bought them wholesale. I don't even know how to make them now."

After hearing this, Shen Yingqiu didn't say any more, took out the money and put it in the hands of the boss. The boss smiled happily and said Happy Lantern Festival, please go slowly.

After walking a few steps with the lantern in hand, the wolf came downcast. He glanced at Shen Yingqiu and didn't say anything. He seemed very disappointed.

At this time, Shen Ye also came to them and called out: "Daddy, Daddy."

Su Zimo didn't respond, just handed him the lantern in his hand and said, "Your."

Shen Ye narrowed his eyes with a smile: "Thank you, Dad."

Mu Nianqing beside him didn't seem very happy either, Shen Yingqiu guessed something, thought for a moment, and said: "Come on, I'll take you to the front, there are things related to selling wolves."

After all, he led the way ahead, walked for a while, and came to a kneader's booth, looked at it for a while, and found that there were no wolves in the dough kneader, he asked: "Boss, can you knead two wolves for us? "

"Wolf?" The boss looked up: "No problem."

"Pinch it to look better." Mu Nianqing said, "It looks a bit like it."

The boss looked up at Mu Nianqing, and said with a smile: "Guest officer, just take a look, I'm sure you will be satisfied."

Not long after, the two lifelike wolves were pinched, and the boss painted them again, and then handed them to Shen Yingqiu and Mu Nianqing.

Mu Nianqing was surprised, as if.

Shen Yingqiu handed it to Mu Feng: "Do you like it?"

Mu Feng took it and nodded: "Like, really like."

"Daddy, my son also wants to face someone." Shen Ye said.

"Tell the boss what you want."

Shen Ye said to the boss: "Boss, pinch me a fox, a koi, and..." Then she looked at Shen Yingqiu: "And my dad."

"Okay." The boss replied, and began to skillfully knead the dough.

After a while, the three dough figurines finished kneading, painted, and handed it to Shen Ye. Shen Ye was delighted to see it: "It really looks like it."

The boss squinted his eyes and smiled: "From my grandfather to now, I have been a dough maker for three generations."

Shen Yingqiu took out the money and put it on his kneader's table, the boss stood up and sent them off: "Guests go away." Then he put the hanging money in his pocket with a smile.

Now the two wolves are satisfied.Looking at the mask in his hand with a smile in his eyes, he praised the image.

They walked a few more streets, and Shen Yingqiu asked, "Are you hungry? Let's eat a bowl of glutinous rice balls."

"One bowl is not enough, I want to eat two bowls." Mu Nianqing said.

"Brother Nianqing, the glutinous rice balls are sweet, I'm tired of eating too much." Shen Ye said.

"It's okay." Mu Nianqing looked at him with a smile and said, "Tian is just this time, I don't usually eat glutinous rice balls."

Shen Ye had nothing to say.

Several people stopped in front of a stall selling glutinous rice balls, sat at the table, and waited for the boss to serve them glutinous rice balls.

"Hey, it's you two." The boss put the glutinous rice balls on the table and said with a smile. Seeing that Shen Yingqiu and the others didn't respond, he hurriedly said, "I'm the little Er Shunzi who sells cloth."

Hearing what he said, Shen Yingqiu remembered: "I almost didn't recognize him, I'm really sorry."

Shunzi scratched the back of her head and smiled foolishly.

Shen Yingqiu asked: "Didn't you do it in the cloth shop?"

"The boss gave his shop to his son." Na Shunzi said, "Thanks to you, I quit my job and set up a stall to sell snacks."

Shen Yingqiu smiled and said: "This is very good." After a while: "How is the business?"

"It's okay, it's enough for a family to live on...I'm satisfied, now I'm married to a wife, and my son is seven years old." After that, he smiled again, paused, glanced at Su Zimo, and didn't dare to say anything What, looking at Shen Ye again, surprised and said: "Oh, this little guy has grown so big?"

Shen Ye ate the glutinous rice balls, squinted at him and smiled, but didn't make a sound.

Shen Yingqiu replied: "No." Blinking her eyes: "I just met the owner of the cloth shop, selling lanterns."

"Yes, he, his wife left last year, and he felt lonely. He couldn't stay at home, so he often went to the market to sell a small gadget, and sold a hot item during the holidays to fill the loneliness." He said with a sigh. : "I've been busy for most of my life, and the house is full of children and grandchildren. It's time to enjoy the blessings, but the proprietress has left. You said that you are leaving the old man alone, but you are really lonely."

Shen Yingqiu was stunned and didn't speak, Na Shunzi hurriedly said: "Oh, I've talked too much, forgive me, you can eat while it's hot, and ask me if you don't have enough." Then he hurried away.

Su Zimo glanced at Shen Yingqiu, seeing that he didn't speak or move the spoon, he scooped up a glutinous rice ball and brought it to his mouth: "If you don't eat any more, it will be cold."

Shen Yingqiu looked down at the glutinous rice balls, then looked up at him, and opened her mouth to eat the glutinous rice balls.

After the few people finished eating, Shen Yingqiu took out the money and put two slings of money, Shunzi hurriedly picked up a sling: "Mr. Shen is out of sight. Here, these bowls of glutinous rice balls are just a few bowls. You don't need so much." The money was stuffed into Shen Yingqiu's hands, but Shen Yingqiu couldn't postpone it, so she had to give up.

But after a few people left the booth and took a few steps, Su Zimo took out a penny and said, "Ye'er, go, give me the money."

Shen Ye responded, took the money, turned around and ran back to the booth, before the boss could react, he put the money and ran back.

Shen Yingqiu smiled and was about to open her mouth to say something, but saw a few familiar figures swaying not far away.

His expression froze, the figure was Shen Wenqing with his wife, youngest son and his parents, they were also walking around in this busy city, talking and laughing.

Su Zimo followed his gaze, did not make a sound, just held Shen Yingqiu's hand, and said in a low voice, "Let's go home."

Shen Yingqiu gave a soft "hmm".

"So fast?" Mu Feng said, "Qing'er and I haven't finished our shopping yet." Seeing Shen Yingqiu's expression, he paused for a moment, and then said: "It's fine to go back, anyway, there will be plenty of time in the future."

Shen Yingqiu didn't say anything, she squeezed Su Zimo's hand, Su Zimo also squeezed his hand, turned to Shen Ye and said: "Ye Er, if you want to go shopping again, just take them for a walk, I will Go home with your father first."

"I'm going home too." Shen Ye replied, because he didn't want to meet his grandparents here either.

The two wolves didn't understand why the expressions of the three of them changed all of a sudden, they didn't ask any more questions, and followed them back home resentfully.

Shen Yingqiu was making the bed, Su Zimo walked over and got into the bed, looking lazy.

Shen Yingqiu smiled lightly: "You are like a little old man, you know how to sleep every day."

Su Zimo didn't answer, stretched out his hand and pulled him onto the bed, wrapped him in his arms, and said in a low voice, "I'm not an old man."

"Yes, you are indeed not an old man." Shen Yingqiu leaned in his arms and murmured: "I am an old man."

Su Zimo said, "No."

Shen Yingqiu said: "Yes."

Su Zimo bit his ear lightly: "If I say no, I won't."

Shen Yingqiu held his face and let him look at herself: "Look, I have wrinkles on my face, and in three to five years, I'm afraid I will be the same as the boss who sells lanterns, with gray hair and a full face. wrinkled."

Su Zimo looked at him, and said for a while, "So what?"

"Don't you hate it?"

"I don't mind." Su Zimo said: "For me, as long as you are Shen Yingqiu, I don't care about anything."

Shen Yingqiu smiled, with tears in her eyes, curled her lips and said, "Slick tongue."

Su Zimo said solemnly: "What I said is true."

Shen Yingqiu didn't say any more, she smiled, turned over and said, "Go to sleep."

Su Zimo forcibly turned him over and asked, "You don't believe me?"

Shen Yingqiu looked at him with a smile on his lips, how could he not believe it, he believed it, he believed it very much.Even though this demon is gray-haired and old-fashioned, he will still hold his hands and be gentle.

However, thinking of leaving this world in the future and leaving their father and son alone in this world, he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable.

In fact, he didn't want to die.

Su Zimo frowned: "You can't doubt me..."

Can't doubt my affection for you.

"How can I have any doubts?" Shen Yingqiu let out a sigh of relief: "I know you won't think so, I asked that question on purpose, just to tease you."

Su Zimo stared at Shen Yingqiu, without saying a word, leaned forward and kissed his lips lightly.

After the kiss, Shen Yingqiu said: "I'm actually very afraid of birth, old age, sickness and death, Zimo, and I'm also afraid of my family being separated."

Su Zimo hugged him tightly.

"At first I was afraid to see my parents and elder brother, but now I see them talking and laughing, and I feel relieved." Shen Yingqiu said softly: "I am really relieved."

"I know." Su Zimo said.