Still tide

The flavor of the New Year in the countryside is always stronger than in the city.

Since the afternoon, every household has been smoking continuously, steamed buns, stewed meat, and ground pots have been constantly on fire.The children outside were throwing cannons and throwing cannons in their pockets, walking a few steps and throwing one. Some Tao children deliberately threw it on other people's courtyard doors, and ran away quickly when they heard the sound.In the yard, the aunts and aunts packed meat and vegetables with the elderly, chatting while cleaning.

The smell of stewed meat in the kitchen filled the yard and the house, and the smell of greasy meat made the children run to the kitchen over and over again, until they could taste the meat from the pot.

Chen Chao was lying in the small room belonging to him in his grandma's house, but the smell of meat that wafted up did not make him feel fragrant, but rather tormented.I vomited for a long time last night, and now my body still instinctively feels nauseous in my sleep.

In the dream, Chen Chao went out to sea with Grandpa Chen. On the small fishing boat, the fishing nets and caught fish were piled full of boats, and Chen Chao was squeezed into a small corner. faint.The water on the fishing net wet his legs, and Chen Chao moved to the side in disgust, a little disgusted.

A slender arm stretched out from the side, and pushed the fishing net forward to make room for it. He smiled so much that his eyes were bent, and he cheerfully comforted Chen Chao with his eyes.

Chen Chao smelled the shampoo on his body, which had a refreshing smell of orange.The faint smell that seemed to be absent was really cured on this suffocating fishing boat. Chen Chao subconsciously followed the smell, and his soft long hair was blown on Chen Chao's face by the sea breeze.Chen Chao stretched out his hand to brush it away, Miao Jiayan looked at him and asked, "Did it blow you?"

Chen Chao didn't speak, and Miao Jiayan tied her hair up with a rubber band.

Grandpa smiled and said that he caught a big fish, and Miao Jiayan happily went over after tying up her hair: "Let me see!"

"Wow, there are so many sea rainbows," Miao Jiayan said with a smile while helping Grandpa Chen pull the fishing net, "the sea rainbows can be cooked again."

Chen Chao seemed to have smelled the fishy smell of boiled seafood in his nostrils, and he became dizzy even more for a while.

Chen Chao didn't sleep well this time, the last scene in his dream before waking up was that Miao Jiayan and her grandpa made a boat full of dark sea rainbows, almost burying Chen Chao.

He just opened his eyes and was still awake, the stewed soup wafting up from downstairs was confused with the smell of fishing nets in his dream, Chen Chao sat up with an ugly face, Miao Jiayan lay on the table next to him, and asked, "Are you not feeling well?" What, Brother Chao?"

Chen Chao looked at him, Miao Jiayan seemed to be asleep too, she was resting on her arm, looking sleepy-eyed.

In the dream he was younger than now, it should be when they were younger.Chen Chao thought of the skinny child in his dream, he smiled foolishly, his eyes were dark and bright.It seems that Miao Jiayan in that period was indeed like that, always brittle.

"What's wrong?" Miao Jiayan sat up, with two red marks on her face from the folds of her sleeves.

Chen Chao looked at Miao Jiayan, and at this moment his heart softened inexplicably.

Since this meeting, the two of them have rarely looked at each other, as if they were deliberately avoiding it.

At this moment, both of them had just woken up and looked at each other in a daze. Miao Jiayan was about to turn her eyes away when she recovered, but was stunned by Chen Chao's sudden laugh.

"I dreamed of you." Chen Chao said.

Miao Jiayan was a little surprised: "...Huh?"

"You and my grandpa got a boatload of Haihong." Chen Chao was suffocated thinking about the darkness in his dream.

Miao Jiayan followed his words and continued: "What about you?"

"I'm on board too."

Miao Jiayan then laughed, and the two marks on her face made her laugh even more funny: "Your dream is not true, you hate Haihong so much."

Chen Chao doesn't like seafood, and especially hates sea rainbows and oysters in seafood, probably because every time Grandpa Chen comes back from the sea, there are strings of dirty sea rainbows and oysters entangled in his fishing net.He felt that this kind of sea creature attached to something and growing in clusters was dirty and ugly.

"You threw nets one by one onto the boat, and almost buried my legs." Chen Chao lifted the quilt and got off the ground, walking towards the bathroom.

Miao Jiayan's eyes followed him, and he couldn't see Chen Chao when he left the room. Miao Jiayan said, "I won't."

The two boys, who hadn't seen each other for a year and a half, inevitably had some estrangement, but most of this estrangement quickly dissipated with the interaction and conversation last night and today.

Chen Chao came back after washing up, feeling quite refreshed.

Miao Jiayan asked him, "Are you feeling better?"

"It's okay." Chen Chao said.

"Then you can eat something later." Miao Jiayan said.

Chen Chao shook his head and said, "I can't eat it."

The phone rang, and Ding Wentao called, saying that he wanted to come over to play, and the family was boring.

Chen Chao said: "Forget it soon, your father has to come and arrest you."

"The family can't take care of me, they play mahjong, I can't stay!" Ding Wentao said lying on his bed.

"Just wait." Chen Chao still didn't let him come.

Miao Jiayan was still sitting on the chair, with her feet on the edge of the chair and her chin resting on her knees.

"Why don't you talk to him?" Chen Chao put the phone aside and asked Miao Jiayan.

Miao Jiayan looked up at him, then put her chin back again without making a sound.

"Annoying him?" Chen Chao asked.

"No." Miao Jiayan replied in a low voice, "I didn't stop talking to him either."

Chen Chao raised his eyebrows.

"He's fine." Miao Jiayan said.

Ding Wentao is actually not a bad person, although sometimes annoying, but generally speaking he is not an annoying person.He is like the general epitome of a small number of boys in this environment. He was naughty when he was a child, went to school to mess around, and only learned to struggle and take care of his family when he grew up.

After Chen Chao left, Ding Wentao went to look for Miao Jiayan very enthusiastically. He came back to junior high school from high school, stood conspicuously at the door of Miao Jiayan's classroom, called Miao Jiayan out, and talked to him like a big brother covering a little brother .

Said that you will follow me to and from school in the future, and tell me if you have something to do.

Before Chen Chao left, Ding Wentao seldom talked to Miao Jiayan, always awkward.I don't know if it's because Chen Chao asked him to take care of him before he left, or because the three of them watched movies together a lot in the past few years. In short, once Chen Chao left, Ding Wentao took the responsibility of taking care of Miao Jiayan on himself.

But Miao Jiayan didn't accept it ignorantly.

This has greatly hurt the face of the school bully brother. It must be such a high-profile thing for the big brother to cover you up. No one else can ask for it.

Since then, Ding Wentao has never spoken to Miao Jiayan again, and the two of them didn't even say hello.

"He said Brother Chao left and he was in charge of me." Miao Jiayan's hair was half hanging on her back and half hanging down, her arms were on her knees, and her side face was resting on her arms.

Chen Chao smiled and said, "Isn't this very particular?"

Miao Jiayan looked at him, then turned her head suddenly, lying on the other side, with a round hair twirling towards Chen Chao.Chen Chao heard him turn around and said, "I don't need others to control me."

"Ah, so powerful." Chen Chao joked.

Miao Jiayan didn't turn back, but slowly blinked her eyes, and said in a low voice, "When you're here, you are you...I don't need someone else to replace you when you're gone."

He said this sentence with a little stubborn temper, which surprised Chen Chao.Miao Jiayan is a child with no temper, always limp.

This should be the most "outrageous" sentence that Miao Jiayan said when Chen Chao came back this time.

Chen Chao didn't respond to his words, but just smiled, tapped his chair back with his fingers and said, "Don't be foolish."

Miao Jiayan only said that one sentence, and never said anything related to this.

Every family's New Year's Eve dinner was lively. Grandma Chen made dumplings with three kinds of fillings. In the afternoon, Miao Jiayan went down to help roll the dumplings.He doesn't know how to pack, he can only roll the skin.Grandma Miao came over and asked him to go back for dinner, but Grandma Chen refused.

While making dumplings, Grandma Chen sighed: "Even Xiao Miaoer has gone to high school."

Miao Jiayan smiled and said, "You've grown up."

"No," Grandma Chen looked at him, and said a little sadly, "I always feel that you are still a little bit, even you are in high school."

Grandma Miao often said the same thing, the growth of a child always passes by in the eyes of the elderly.

"It's making us old." Chen Guangda came in to look for something to eat, and then mixed in.

The Spring Festival in rural areas can't help burning, and every family will join in the fun and set off a hanging whip.My uncle brought back a lot of fireworks. He has liked firecrackers since he was a child.After dinner, the three boys in the family put on their coats and went outside to watch my uncle put flowers.

"Dad, if you don't want to arrange them all in a row, then they will look good." The younger brother said.

"Isn't it going to be finished in a while? Can't we just watch it?" The uncle said, "When we were young, your uncle and I couldn't bear to finish it all at once. Slowly put it in the cannon, and we both tore apart the noodles in the cannon after it was fired, poured it out and saved it.”

"Oh, I'm really sour, don't think about bitterness and sweetness here, hurry up." The younger brother urged.

Miao Jiayan stood behind Chen Chao. Chen Chao was a head taller than him, blocking him tightly.

In the yard next door, Miao Jian was also playing hand-rolled flowers with his two nephews.The two children were laughing and laughing, and they were very happy to hear it.

"Zixin, put on your hat properly, you'll catch a cold again!" the aunt shouted.

"I'm hot!" The child doesn't seem to like wearing a hat, "I can't catch a cold!"

The uncle here has already lit the fireworks, and the sound of "bang bang" is heard intermittently, cutting off the voice in the yard next door.

The fireworks exploded in all directions in the sky, and a small fragment fell and collapsed on Chen Chao's shoulder. Chen Chao pulled Miao Jiayan to the wall.

After one set of fireworks was set off, my uncle walked over to order another set.

The younger brother turned around and said, "It's not very pretty, it's still the old style."

The two younger brothers in the yard next door also cheered and waited for a new round of fireworks to be released.

While lighting the fire, I heard my aunt ask Miao Jian: "Can you tell if there's a boy or a girl?"

Miao Jian didn't hear what he said.

The aunt said: "I should be able to bring them back next year during the Chinese New Year."

Chen Chao looked down at Miao Jiayan, and Miao Jiayan felt his gaze and looked up at him.

Not knowing whether he heard it or not, he met Chen Chao's eyes and smiled heartlessly at him.