I have always treated people warmly

The matter of the banquet made a big splash on Christmas night.

It is indeed surprising that Tadano tore up the oil painting in public, but it can be traced back to her arrogant boss, Keigo Atobe, and everything seems very logical.

People inside the circle are accustomed to this, while outsiders dare not gossip.After the news loses its timeliness, it can't even be counted as talk after dinner.

In this way, as soon as Christmas is over, every household puts pine trees in front of the door to prepare for the arrival of the new year.

White-collar workers who are in a hurry on weekdays have asked for their annual leave in advance.The investment amount of the Volleyball Association platform was finally officially recorded in time for the last business day of the year.

On the night of the dark day, Tadano packed up his things and went back to his hometown.

In fact, it is her hometown. She was born and raised in Tokyo since she was a child, and she studied here until she graduated from university. She is not as eager to return home as most people.

After eating the New Year's Eve dinner as usual, Tadano retreated to the kotatsu early, and leaned against Shino, watching the variety show called "ガキ修", laughing hard.

Tatiano's mother peeled an orange, stuffed half of it into each of their hands, and sighed: "In recent years, everyone doesn't like to watch red and white, and I don't know who will appear this year."

Tadano took a bite of the orange and almost lost his teeth: "ARASHI, Guan 8, I remember these five years ago, it should be the same this year."

After saying that, without changing his face, he stuffed the remaining petal to Sinon.

Shino didn't think much, took the orange and said: "It's like this every year, no wonder people are getting more and more... ah, so sour!"

She covered her cheeks, frowned and looked at the instigator: "Shiori Tadano! Does your future boyfriend know that you poisoned your sister like this!"

Tatiano stuck out his tongue, gloating at the side: "He doesn't know, and if he knows, how dare he do anything to me?"

"Okay, remember what you said today, and see how I expose your faults in the future!"

"Hahaha, it's so itchy! Sis, don't make trouble! I was wrong!"

Tadano laughed while hiding, because a small piece of sour orange twisted into a ball like a schoolboy with Sinon.

Xu Shi's family hadn't been so noisy for a long time. The two parents looked at the sisters cheerfully, but they kept silent about "we should get married when we are old enough" and other unpleasant words.

In a blink of an eye, the pointer passed zero.

The Tadano family didn't have the habit of celebrating the New Year's Eve, and went back to their rooms after watching the variety show.

In the bedroom, Tadano's pajamas were half undone, when the phone rang a few times.She picked it up to read, and it turned out to be a message from Heiweifa, asking if she was asleep.

"Not yet, what's the matter?"

A few seconds after pressing the send button, Heiwei called.

"Happy New Year, Tadano kid, have you eaten the New Year's soba?"

He still spoke in that tone of beating.

Tadano smiled, actually getting used to the other person's behavior: "Happy New Year, kid with a black tail, just finished eating and is getting ready to rest."

Heiwei pretended to be surprised and asked, "Sleeping right after eating, isn't it easy to digest?"

Tadano jokingly replied: "Which family are you a male mother? I have a lot to worry about~"

Heiwei giggled a few times, not forgetting to take advantage of it.

After a while of gags, I don't know when it started, a little snow slowly drifted outside the window.The two looked out the window quietly, neither of them said anything, but neither of them wanted to hang up the phone first.

"That..." "Speaking of..."

The sound rang out at the same time.Tadano couldn't help laughing out loud: "You talk first."

Heiwei coughed a few times and scratched the messy hair on the back of his head: "That... I want to say, if you are not sleepy..."

"Well, I'm not sleepy, and then?" Tadano replied softly, not knowing what he was expecting.

Between two people, someone has to take that step first.Now that I have decided to "tangle up", I am not short of courage.

"Then I want to say..." Heiwei took a deep breath across the screen and asked,

"Shall we watch the sunrise together?"

......

At one o'clock in the morning, Tadano was lying on the bed, staring at the old-fashioned chandelier on the ceiling in a daze.

Under the warm yellow light, she tossed and turned and couldn't figure out why she had just agreed to watch the sunrise just now.

Chasing cockroaches, drinking, visiting the lantern show.In the past few meetings alone, they could still use work or important matters as excuses to cover up the past, but this time it was nothing.

The most important thing for adults is restraint and sobriety. Of course, she also sensibly bound the relationship between the two of them within the frame called "old friends".

But now she is helpless, someone seems to be infiltrating her life little by little, occupying a large part of her mind.

"Oops, we're going to be late..."

Tadano sat up in a jerk, seeing that the appointed time was getting closer and closer, before he had time to think about the answer, he hurriedly changed his clothes and ran downstairs.

"Wow, you scared me, what are you doing in the middle of the night!"

Shino came out to drink water in the middle of the night, and happened to bump into Tatiano, who was tightly wrapped up, and was so frightened that a thief had broken into the house.

"Watch the sunrise." Tadano quickly changed his shoes, and then made a silent gesture to the person, "Don't tell your parents, I will treat you to dinner another day!"

"Eat, that's okay... Hey, wait! Who are you going with at such a big night!"

The "click" of the door lock sounded.

Shino's face was blurred by the cold wind, she thought and thought, and finally, with ellipses all over her face, she said in a low voice:

Tsk, woman.

Tadano ran in a hurry and realized that he was too impulsive when he came to the alley.

She slowed down her pace, and then pressed the bangs that were raised outwards on her forehead, and she couldn't help laughing at herself, saying that she was really, as Atobu said, quite worthless.

When he saw Heiwei, he was wearing a dark coat and was leaning against the car and playing with his mobile phone.Beside the deserted street, the figure stood out from afar.

Tadano gasped for breath, walked a few steps closer, and found that the tip of Heiwei's nose was red, and couldn't help asking impatiently, "Sorry I'm late, why don't you wait in the car?"

Because I want to see you soon.

Heiwei sniffed and said, "It's stuffy in the car, but it's cool outside."

"It's cool, why don't you go to the North Pole, it's cooler there, go in quickly."

Tadano opened the driver's door, pushed people in, and then went to the convenience store across the road to buy two cans of red bean soup.

The heating cycle in the car was already on.

Heowei folded his arms on the steering wheel, followed Tadano into the convenience store, and returned to the car. At this moment, he felt happy in his heart.

Tadano sat in the co-pilot and handed him a can of red bean soup: "What are you laughing at?"

Holding the hot aluminum can, Heiwei thought to himself that I laughed at you for loving me, but said, "Am I laughing, I usually look like this~"

Obviously, he usually has a poker face, but a three-year-old would only believe this nonsense.

Tadano didn't want to play this kind of verbal dispute with Kurobi, so he untied the scarf silently, folded it into tofu cubes, and placed them neatly on his thighs.

Xu Shi had just finished exercising, and Tadano's cheeks had a layer of faint pink, and the gardenia fragrance on his neck became more intense and charming as the room temperature rose.

Heiwei nose sniffed, raised the corners of his mouth and said, "I wanted to say before, why do you still wear the same perfume after all these years?"

"Hey, so you can smell it." Tadano was slightly surprised.

She picked up the scarf and smelled it, and the rich aroma immediately surrounded the tip of her nose: "But the scent of gardenia is too strong, you straight men should prefer fresh citrus scents, right?"

Heiwei didn't take it seriously: "Who said that, I just like the unbearable aroma that she can't shake off no matter how hard she dusts off."

It is often said in the book that the leaves of gardenia flowers are thick and thick, and they are so fragrant that I don't know how to restrain them.She is not as high-spirited as the chrysanthemums, and her character is naturally low in comparison.

"But Gardenia said—" Black Tail drew a long tone, and tilted his head to look at Tadano.

Tatiano smiled, and continued: "Fuck his low character, I just want to smell like this, and the fragrance is delicious, free and easy, can you control me!"*

After that, the two held their stomachs and laughed together.

......

Speaking of watching the sunrise, it is natural to go to the beach.

The Isohara Coast faces the Pacific Ocean, with a long and gentle coastline, about three hours' drive from Tokyo.

Tadano originally wanted to complain about the strong wind and light snow at the seaside, so he went there because he was really stupid.But after thinking about it, it's all out, so let's go.

There is soft soft music playing in the car, Heiwei occasionally hums a few words, and the subwoofer is even better than the built-in sound effect.

When passing the high-speed service area, the two went to buy a cup of hot coffee, nestled in the car and chatted about what happened in the past few years.

For example, when Hei Wei first joined the club, he was dragged to drink by different small groups every night, and passed out several times after holding the toilet and throwing up.

For another example, Tadano just went to Paris and was unfamiliar with the place of life. The apartment he lived in often had power outages and trips, and the sound insulation was extremely poor. He would be woken up by the young couple upstairs when he slept until midnight.

Once the chatterbox is opened, there will be endless chatter.When the two set off again, there was less than half an hour left before sunrise.

On the coast of Isohara, the two of them wrapped themselves in thick scarves and walked down the road on the steps.

Heiwei became interested, and suddenly asked, "Sunrise is coming soon. By the way, our Tatiano children, did you get the lucky money this year?"

"Huh?" Tatiano glanced at him, "I'm so old, I still get lucky money."

Heiwei put his hands in his pockets, bent slightly and turned his head to look at her: "Our family's custom is that you can keep taking it until you have a date. If you say that, I won't give you the lucky money~"

Tadano became more and more speechless, and gently pushed him: "It's not big or small, tell me, what do you want?"

The disadvantage of two old lovers being together is that they can easily understand each other's thoughts even after a long time.

"So, I really lost to you."

Heiwei complained in a low voice, then straightened up, and said helplessly, "Hey, I actually prepared a New Year's gift and wanted to give it to you~"

Tadano was startled, and suddenly remembered the tie he bought in Sendai and hadn't given away yet.

Taking advantage of her daze, Heowei took out a small box from the inner pocket of the coat.After opening it, a pair of earrings lay quietly inside, with a small wooden gardenia hanging from the bottom of the earrings.

Tadano was silent for a few seconds, and didn't care why Kurobi wanted to give her a gift, but picked up one of them, and stroked the flowers with his fingers.

It's not a fine workmanship, but you can tell it's purely handmade at a glance.

In fact, these two small woody gardenias were indeed made by Heiwei.It's just that they broke up before sending it out five years ago, and Heiwei has never been willing to throw it away in the past few years.

"How is it? Do you still like it?" Kurobi looked at the gardenia in Tadano's hand, but he couldn't help sneaking a peek at her expression from the corner of his eye.

The first ray of sunshine in 2019 is slowly crossing the horizon.After years of separation, a certain string in my heart seemed to be touched lightly again.

Tadano hooked the corner of his mouth, put on the pair of earrings directly, then slowly raised his chin, stared at Kurobi's eyes, and said softly:

"like".

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*From Wang Zengqi's "Grass and Trees on Earth"