Where is Our Agreement to be Each Other's Arch-Rivals?

After successfully obtaining the dual-cultivation skills, and one day closer to New Year's Eve, Gu Feidi and Su Yan were not in a hurry to return.

The two rented a small courtyard in the village at the foot of Junyou Mountain. On the last day of the opening of the market on December 29, they bought simple New Year's goods and planned to spend New Year's Eve together before heading to Xiaoyulou.

On New Year's Eve, Su Yan and Gu Feidi didn't go out, planning to decorate this uninhabited courtyard with a Chinese New Year atmosphere.

For example, couplets and blessing characters must be posted.

Su Yang's brush calligraphy has not been practiced so far, it's just that it can't be blurred into a ball, and it's barely recognizable.Therefore, the matter of writing Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters was handed over to Gu Feidi.

It wasn't difficult for Gu Feidi, and he quickly wrote a couplet based on his family's New Year's couplets in previous years, and asked Su Yan to post it together with him.Unexpectedly, Su Yan was not used to the paste brush, and he had to stretch out his hand to press the sticky tape every time he brushed it. As a result, the couplets were crumpled, the corners of the couplets were covered with paste, and it was dyed the color of red paper. , making his hands full.

Gu Feidi didn't help, just watched and laughed.

After finally wiping off a couplet, Gu Feidi took it to stick it, Su Yan looked at his hands, and was thinking about where to find water to wash it, when Gu Feidi called him.

"Xiao Xiao, do you think this position is correct?"

"It will look better if it is higher."

Su Yan approached the first two steps, looked at Gu Feidi who was putting on the Spring Festival couplets seriously, narrowed his eyes suddenly, and said, "Well, that's right, just in time...you post it and come and do me a favor."

Gu Feidi smoothed the crumpled couplet, turned around and approached Su Yan: "What's the matter?"

Su Yan suddenly raised his hand, wiped the blush on Gu Feidi's cheeks, and quickly pulled out three cat whiskers.

"You didn't help me just now!" He bared his teeth and pretended to be angry, "Laughing at me!"

Gu Feidi let him play tricks on him, but he didn't get angry, and said with a smile, "Don't make trouble, before you wash your hands, I also posted the next couplet and the word "Fu."

Su Yang: ...

Su Yan pouted, raised his hand and poked a little red spot between Gu Feidi's eyebrows.

The two fought and fought, and finally posted the couplet and the word "Fu".

At this time, two peasant women who were visiting together passed by on the side of the road. Seeing the two of them fighting at the gate of the courtyard, they couldn't help laughing.

"Hey, even though they live here as strangers, the relationship between the two brothers is really good." One of the women lowered her voice.

The other woman took a look at Su Yan, clicked her tongue lightly, and said, "Where is the brother, I see, the little brother with a fair face looks so good-looking, I'm afraid it's not a woman disguised as a man... It's obviously a young couple. Flirting!"

"Hey, after what you said...you still have amazing eyes!"

Su Yang: ...

Gu Feidi: ...

The "young couple" with sharp ears and eyes heard all these whispers, looked at each other, and suddenly couldn't help laughing.

After picking up the paste and brushes and going back to the house, Gu Feidi fetched water and washed his hands and face with Su Yan.After that, the two began to worry about how to eat the New Year's Eve dinner.

Su Yan lived alone for a long time, and he knew how to cook simple meals, but he couldn't use the earthen stove of this ancient farmhouse at all.What's more, the clay pot was embedded in the stove, so it couldn't be lifted up, and it couldn't resist dry cooking. It definitely couldn't be used for stir-frying. At most... steaming and boiling could be manipulated.

"You should know how to use this kind of stove, right?" Su Yan knelt down by the stove and turned to ask Gu Feidi.

"No." Gu Feidi answered quickly.

"Isn't your house such an earthen stove? How could it not be!" Su Yan didn't believe it.

Gu Feidi squatted down next to Su Yan, studied the hearth with him, and said casually, "I've never been in my kitchen... but the stove should look the same when I think about it."

Su Yan was silent for a moment, then said: "...Yes, I almost forgot, you used to be a young master."

Gu Feidi smiled, got up and picked up a few logs from the firewood pile and threw them into the hearth, added a few handfuls of twigs, blew on the fire, and lit the hearth.

Su Yang hurriedly poured some water into the pot to prevent the clay pot from drying out and cracking.While asking: "Don't you know how to light a stove?"

Gu Feidi said: "I guess it's probably used in this way."

After thinking about the dishes for a long time, Su Yan finally decided to make a meal of dumplings for the occasion.

Gu Feidi was dispatched by Su Yan to chop up stuffing, and Su Yan himself took on the heavy responsibility of making noodles.Fortunately, although Gu Feidi has never been in contact with cooking, he has a lot of experience in using weapons. His arms and wrists are strong enough to chop the stuffing just right.Su Yang adjusted the taste of the stuffing, and the noodles were almost ready.

Su Yan rolled out some dumpling wrappers and taught Gu Feidi how to make dumplings.Gu Feidi is smart, just seeing that he made two wraps, he learned it well.

Seeing that he was getting started quickly, Su Yan, who hadn't had time to fully enjoy the pleasure of being a teacher, couldn't help curling his lips, and muttered: "...the aura of the protagonist is really powerful."

Gu Feidi smiled and asked, "What? What do you mean?"

Su Yan grinned at Gu Feidi, but didn't answer.

The two of them rolled out the skins one by one and made the dumplings by the other. They had a tacit understanding and quickly finished wrapping a large pot of fillings.

Su Yan rolled the leftover noodles into dough pieces, and said with a smile: "Every time I eat dumplings, I actually like to eat the dough pieces made from these leftover noodles... I don't know why, the taste is completely different from rolling noodles alone. Same, amazing."

Gu Feidi said: "The dumplings will be cooked in a while, you will eat the noodles, and I will eat the dumplings."

Su Yan was delighted: "Now you are getting less and less polite to me!"

Gu Feidi just laughed.

Seeing Su Yang cooking dumplings in a familiar way, he said: "Listen to you, at least you could eat dumplings before, so life shouldn't be considered hard?"

This was the first time that Gu Feidi took the initiative to ask about the original life of Su Yang's soul.

Su Yan thought about it carefully, and replied: "Actually, it's pretty good. At least I have my own house, and I don't have to worry about food and clothing. People around me have treated me very well since I was a child. I have never met bad people, nor A really sad setback. I wanted to do what I like, and I did it... Now that I think about it, I am really lucky."

"Then...how old were you?" Gu Feidi asked again.

"I came here when I was 21 years old." Su Yan said, "If you count by the age of your soul, I'm almost 24 now."

"21, I've reached the crown..." Gu Feidi murmured for a moment, then asked hesitantly, "Have you...have you been married?"

Hearing this question, Su Yang was delighted.

"Why, are you asking now?" He smiled, "Don't you think it's a bit late?"

Gu Feidi replied, "Before, I was afraid to ask."

"What are you afraid to ask?" Su Yan said, "As long as you ask, I will answer."

Gu Feidi looked at Su Yan, and asked again: "Then have you ever been married?"

"No." Su Yan said with a smile, "We get married late over there, and there are quite a few people who get married in their thirties... 21, most of them just graduated from school, how can they get married so quickly. And... I've never found anyone I like."

Hearing this answer, Gu Feidi looked at Su Yan with a smile in his eyes.

After a while, he seemed to remember something, and asked in confusion: "Listen to you, the scenery of your hometown is also different from that of the Central Plains... Where is your hometown?"

Su Yang smiled.

"My hometown is a very strange place."

He lifted the lid of the pot, pushed the gathered dumplings with a spoon, and pretended to be mysterious: "For example, this stove, in my hometown, just turn a button, and the flame will start, which is very convenient. Isn’t it amazing that the stove and the pot can be cooked by lighting a fire?”

Hearing such an unimaginable thing, Gu Feidi was not surprised to ask, but thought for a while, and said with a smile: "No wonder you can make dumplings, but you can't make a fire."

After finishing speaking, before Su Yan could continue, he laughed again and said, "Don't you need to use a torch to light the lamps in your hometown?"

Su Yang was taken aback: "Huh? How do you know?"

Gu Feidi said: "I still remember that when you first entered Xiaoyulou, you couldn't even make fire hands."

Su Yang: ...

Su Yan sighed exaggeratedly, and said, "My dear junior brother, do you really believe what I say?"

Gu Feidi said: "As long as you answer, I will believe it."

Su Yang was at a loss for words for a while.

He stared at Gu Feidi's star-like eyes, but he didn't see any joke or perfunctory in them.

Suddenly, Su Yan had an urge to tell Gu Feidi all the ins and outs of this world, and then...

...and then what?

He didn't know if he could go back, even if he could, he didn't know if Gu Feidi could be taken there.

A whistling sound pulled Su Yi out of his trance.

He reached out to lift the lid of the pot, but Gu Feidi was one step faster than him, picking up the lid.

The foam in the pot was exposed to the cold air outside, and gradually burst and dispersed.Su Yan picked up the bowl next to him and added half a bowl of cold water to the pot, and the boiling dumpling soup immediately calmed down.

It's better to wait for the crowning ceremony to be successfully completed, and then tell Gu Feidi his origin.

Su Yang thought so.

Although Su Yan doesn't often make dumplings by himself, this time he did it surprisingly successfully.The softness and firmness of the noodles are just right, the saltiness of the stuffing is just right, and even the quantity is just enough to fill the stomachs of two people.

At the end of the meal, the two shared a side of soup.

Su Yan asked: "How is it? Is this noodle better than normal noodle?"

Gu Feidi replied with a smile, "I don't know."

Su Yang: "Huh? Why don't you know?"

Gu Feidi said: "Next time, you can make me a normal dough piece and try it. I'll know if there is a comparison."

Su Yan was dissatisfied: "Why did I do it? Haven't you eaten noodles before?"

Gu Feidi: "What you do is naturally different from what others do."

Su Yang was slightly stunned, unable to understand for a moment.

Gu Feidi added: "The noodles you make can be compared with the dumpling noodles you make. No matter what other people make, they will not taste better than yours."

These words made Su Yang very happy, and they were extremely useful.But he wanted to put on a disdainful look, curled his lips and said: "The love story is a string of strings..."

Gu Feidi sipped his soup with a smile, but didn't answer.

That night, the two warmed rice wine and sat in the courtyard chatting to watch the new year.

On New Year's Eve, there is no moon in the night sky, and the stars are scattered in the sky, making them look even brighter.

"Although we have known each other for several years, this is the first New Year's Eve we have spent together." Gu Feidi said, "Back then in Xiaoyulou, I entered the Tibetan Pearl Pavilion too early, so I didn't celebrate the New Year with you. Thinking about it now, it's really pity."

Su Yan was already slightly drunk, leaned on Gu Feidi's shoulder with his wine glass, and said with a low laugh: "If there is a first New Year's Eve, there will be a second one, and there will be many more in the future, what's the pity? "

Gu Feidi looked at Su Yan, the starry sky was reflected in his eyes, as if there were countless brilliance flowing.

"You can't go back on what you said yourself." He laughed.

Su Yan didn't answer, just smiled and put his arms around Gu Feidi's neck, and kissed him on the lips.