prefer silence

At six o'clock in the evening, Chen Zheng and I arrived at the reserved restaurant half an hour earlier.

There are only six people in total for the two families, so we ordered small bags.

The small private room is on the seventh floor, and it is designed with floor-to-ceiling windows, so you can clearly see the night view of the nearby neighborhoods.

We confirmed the menu for the New Year's Eve dinner and asked the waiter to start serving the dishes.

"Mom and Dad, they should be here soon." I took out my mobile phone and called Mom to ask their location. Sure enough, the two parents were almost at the parking lot.

I asked the waiter for the remote control of the curtains, which exposed a whole side of the glass.

The lights outside the window were brightly lit, and the LED screen on the wall of the building next to it was showing a virtual fireworks effect.The colorful fireworks exploded one by one, and the cycle began again and again.

"The effect of this firework is real or fake, and there is no sound." I watched it for a while and came to a conclusion.

"If you really want to make a sound, you should be complained." Chen Zheng stood beside me, facing the bustling traffic with me, the colorful night light melted into several irregular color blocks on his face, jumping and changing.

I was silent, inexplicably depressed, and I didn't know where to start.Aren't I still having fun when I'm skating during the day?

Seeing that I hadn't spoken for a long time, Chen Zheng turned his head and asked me, "Want to set off fireworks? Then let's buy some fairy sticks on the way home, and set them off secretly on the small balcony."

I was about to say yes, but was interrupted by the waiter who came to serve the food.

"Sir, all the dishes you ordered for the 'Five Blessings to Send Spring' New Year's Eve dinner have been served. There are twelve dishes in total. I wish you a pleasant meal."

"Okay, thank you." Chen Zheng nodded politely, then pulled me to the door, and whispered to me, "Smile, Yuanyuan, today is New Year's Eve, the day of reunion, and I will see my mother soon."

Yes, today is a day of reunion, a day of family joy.

I smiled, and stood next to Chen Zheng, waiting to welcome the four elders.

Aunt Chen and my mother were laughing and chatting from afar in the corridor. It was very lively. When they saw Chen Zheng and me, their eyes rolled up in unison, revealing a familiar loving gaze.

"You guys are door gods at the gate again this year?" Aunt Chen patted me on the shoulder and praised me, "Yuan Yuan's back is really straight."

My mother retorted: "Xiao Wei, you are wrong, our Yuan Yuan is so cute, he should be a lucky boy."

"Yes, yes, yes!" Aunt Chen looked at me playfully, "Hey, the more I look at it, the more I look like it, so what is Zheng Chen?"

She asked herself and answered: "Chen Zheng is tall and has a fierce face, so he is Guan Gong who wards off evil spirits."

A group of people sat down with a smile.

……

Halfway through the meal, Dad answered the phone. There was a faint crying female voice over the phone. I sensitively stopped my chopsticks and stared at him.

Anger flashed across his face, and after hanging up the phone he smiled at everyone, "Wrong number."

Lan Qing is calling, right?The good mood I recovered from disappeared, what was that woman doing calling?Should I ask Dad to accompany her, or use her sick daughter to pretend to be pitiful?

Mom didn't seem to notice the slightest abnormality, and she was still chatting with Aunt Chen about the daily routine.

It was a lot of fun.

Chen Zheng took my bowl and gave me two spoonfuls of sweet corn soup, "Just now you ate too much spicy shrimp, your stomach can't take it anymore."

I had a sore nose, afraid of losing my composure in public, I immediately lowered my head and drank the soup.

Chen Zheng secretly picked my palm under the table, and then began to write stroke by stroke.

One stroke, another stroke, one stroke... I seriously felt the direction of his fingertips. On the surface, he was drinking the soup quietly, but in fact, his attention was all on the square inch of his left palm.

Chen Zheng wrote very slowly, he only wrote three words - go to the bathroom.

Go to the toilet, what to do in the toilet for no reason?

Forgive me for suddenly thinking of some inappropriate things, but, with Chen Zheng's character, it is absolutely impossible for him to play this kind of fun with me in the presence of his parents.

Before I could figure out why, Chen Zheng had already left his seat. I looked at the time on my phone and pressed down for a full 5 minutes before I pretended to be puzzled and said, "Brother Zheng, why did you go so long? I'll go and see him."

As I said that, I walked out, and behind me Aunt Chen sighed in a gratifying tone, "These two children have such a good relationship."

"Yeah yeah."

My ears are burning, and it's really embarrassing to be discussed face-to-face by elders about my relationship status.

Walking through the corridor, I followed the signs to the end. Chen Zhengzheng was waiting for me standing under the indoor landscape tree next to the men’s restroom. His slender figure was projected on the ground by the yellow crystal lamp, stretching it into a long strip that stretched all the way. to my feet.

I stepped on his shadow, walked up to him step by step, and said witty words, "Brother Zheng, your shadow belongs to me."

But Chen Zheng pulled me into his arms and apologized to me: "Yuan Yuan, it's my fault, if you don't want to laugh, then don't laugh."

All the emptiness and unexplainable panic found an outlet in an instant. I lowered my head and hit the chest of the man in front of me lightly, biting my lips and crying silently.

Out of the corner of my eye, a pair of men's leather shoes passed by us. Chen Zheng led me to turn around, got stuck in the gap between the corners of the wall, and blocked me with his broad back.

He is the real door god now, my door god.

I didn't have any scruples anymore, I lowered my voice and wept until I burst into tears, except for Chen Zheng, no one would see my ugly appearance.

"I'm fine." Lifting my heavy eyelids, I looked at Chen Zheng pitifully, and he nodded my nose, "It's too red, go and wash it off."

In the mirror, my eyes were red, my nose was red, and my eyelids were swollen.I stretched out my hand, and the sensor faucet spouted clear water, which was hot.

I just washed my face with water, Chen Zheng handed me a wet tissue, I wiped off the drops of water on my face, and asked him: "You knew I was going to cry, so you said to come to the bathroom?"

"I guessed it, you always cry when you're sad." Chen Zheng didn't hold back, and directly pointed out my love for crying.

"I'll just cry to you."

"It's an honor." Chen Zheng pointed at my colorful face in the mirror, "How can I explain to my parents when I go back?"

I chuckled, "That means you bullied me, and you made me cry."

"Okay." Chen Zheng put his long arms around my waist, and leaned close to my ear, "That's all."

Faced with the doubts from his parents, Chen Zheng took the blame for making me angry with a face full of shame.

He was scolded by two women.

This New Year's Eve dinner ended with Chen Zheng being criticized.

Watching Dad's car drive away, I looked up at the fireworks in the building again.

It's still on.

"Brother Zheng, I don't want a fairy stick anymore." I held out my hand to Chen Zheng, "Let's look at this fake firework again and count how many colors it has."

The fairy wand is gorgeous and shining, but its flame is only a flash in the pan, and only a single stick is left in the end.

Family fun is a short three hours tonight, and fake fireworks go off forever.

"Okay." Chen Zheng held my hand firmly, "Let's count together."

"Red...blue...green..."

"It was blue just now! It's dark blue!"

"Then it's the fourth type..."

The author says:

I don't know if you will feel that way?It means that you are anxious or unhappy because of something for a certain period of time, and then as long as someone says to you, "Don't laugh, cry out", all the grievances will come out all of a sudden, and you can't control it.

Yuan Yuan is in this state now, am I writing him too emotionally...

[There will be another update tomorrow night, and then the next day will be updated normally. 】