Leader of the Ark Raiders

374. The essence of human beings is...

The two walked slowly along the snowy street.

"Look, look, the Sagrada Familia has different lights tonight!"

Shen Cangye noticed it first.

The Sagrada Familia, which is a block away, has closed its doors, but there are still colorful lights.

The white light shines from inside the church to the night sky outside the church, casting brilliant rainbow-like mist on the colored glass on the side wall of the church.

Wendy looked in the direction of Shen Cangye's finger, and exclaimed: "Wow - the Sagrada Familia can also... Oh my god, it's so beautiful!"

Shen Cangye patted Hai Long girl's shoulder and said, "Do you still remember—when I first moved here, we came to the Holy Family Cathedral together, and then..."

"Then?"

"Then, we were in the car and you said something..."

"Ah, that—" Wendy froze for a moment.

Her memory is very good, and their conversation at that time appeared in her mind instantly.

They were in the car talking about how human love works.

At that time, she said coldly:

Love is just the result of the interaction of various hormones in the human body, and it is a collection of various chemical reactions.Love will not happen to her, she is already busy enough with work every day, and she has no time to think about these messy troublesome things.She didn't think she would meet someone who was in her heart.

For a moment, Hai Long girl just wanted to find a hole to get in.

The face was slapped loudly...

But it smells so good!

She felt a little embarrassed again, "I don't remember, I completely forgot."

Shen Cangye smiled, "Oh, I don't remember? Then let me help you recall, you say—"

"Don't say it, don't say it!" The Agor girl shyly thumped Shen Cangye's chest, "You just like to laugh at me!"

"No, no, then let's not talk about it!" Shen Cangye hurriedly hugged Wendy.

Knowing that she was embarrassed, he changed the topic: "It's a pity, there should be choir performances and carols in the church at five or six o'clock in the evening... We are late now, the church is closed, and everyone missed."

"I've never heard a Christmas carol." Wendy said with a bit of regret.

"Why? In Iberia!"

The Agor girl shook her head, "There are no believers in my family, so I don't have the habit of going to church. I don't know what a Christmas church should look like."

As they were walking, they happened to pass a piano.

As the famous art capital of Iberia, Catalona will put such a piano at many street corners for passers-by to play.

When Shen Cangye saw the piano, his eyes lit up, and he pulled the girl forward.

"Let me play you a Christmas carol." Shen Cangye sat down on the piano bench and opened the piano cover.

He recalled the score and played a Christmas carol he remembered hearing in church.

Church music is often gentle, holy and serene.

In the falling snow, the sound of the piano did not reach very far, only the performer and the only audience heard it.

After playing the last note, Shen Cangye felt a little resentful, "It would be great if it was a pipe organ, the sound of the pipe organ can travel farther."

"Christmas Eve... so it should be like this." Wendy also sat down on the piano stool, "Santa Claus, Christmas carols, and the church choir..."

Shen Cangye closed the piano cover.Looking at the Agor girl beside her, she smiled, "What you said, it looks like a child without childhood."

Wendy was dissatisfied, "What..."

Shen Cangye said: "I thought that in a place like Iberia where the religious overtones are particularly strong, every child would wait for Santa Claus to come."

Hailong girl smiled helplessly, "Our family is very serious. My parents told me since I was a child that there will be no free lunch in the world, and there will be no Santa Claus who selflessly cares about the world and gives gifts every year. All gifts should be given by Earn it by yourself, and you will gain as much as you work hard, just like scientific research.”

Shen Cangye laughed, "It's really like what the elders of the scientific research family said."

"Don't laugh at me." Wendy squeezed him.

Looking at the falling snowflakes, she said, "This is the first time that Christmas is celebrated in a serious way..."

"You are such a good boy." Shen Cangye said with a smile, "That's how you listen to your parents."

Wendy raised her eyebrows, "Of course. Since I was a child, the elders in the family have said that I am the most obedient child in the family."

"Are you the most obedient child in the family?" Shen Cangye rubbed the girl's hair, "It's a pity that such an obedient baby has never received a gift from Santa Claus."

"No, I received it this year." The Agor girl turned to look at him, "This is the best gift I have been a good boy for many years, and I finally got what I wanted."

Both starlight and moonlight were reflected in her fiery pupils, like the sparkling sea surface.

Shen Cangye was a little puzzled, "You mean the eggnog that Santa Claus made for you just now?"

The eyes crossed, and the girl looked away embarrassedly.

375. You are Santa's gift

"Eggnog—well, yes...sort of." Wendy whispered.

"You are too easily satisfied." Shen Cangye smiled, "Just a glass of eggnog can be the best Christmas gift?"

Wendy closed her eyes.

A moment of thought...

She suddenly wanted to kiss him.

It wasn't the kind of shallow kiss they were used to.

It was a deeper, longer, more intense kiss.

But when she thought of that scene, she felt like a deer bumping in her heart.

Where should the hand be placed?

Will the nose touch?

What should I do if I can't breathe?

What should I do if I hit my teeth?

What's the next step after the kiss?

At this moment, the doctor of engineering has a deep understanding of the correctness of the Yan country saying "If you know this, you must do it yourself".

Want...to kiss him?

Or wait for him to kiss yourself first?

Wendy clenched her small fists, her toes rubbed against the ground, and she was at a loss.

"What, I played it too well? Are you stunned?" Shen Cangye snapped his fingers next to the girl's ear.

"Ah—what?" Wendy came back to her senses.

"Look how frozen you are, your face is red from the cold." Shen Cangye rubbed the girl's face.

Then, he took her hand, "Let's go, let's go back."

"Hmm..." Wendy looked at his face, feeling a little nervous again.

They walked down the snow-covered street and returned to the apartment.

"Huh... I'm freezing to death, come in quickly." Wendy entered the door first.

She quickly changed her shoes, and pulled Shen Cangye into the room.

She patted the snowflakes off his shoulders for him, Shen Cangye leaned slightly, and asked the girl to pat the snowflakes off his head as well.

The warm orange lights in the restaurant finally give people a feeling of going home.

Wendy lit a candle and put it on the dining table.

The warm firelight seems to melt the cold of winter.

"Sit down first." Wendy beckoned Shen Cangye to sit at the table in the dining room, and went into the kitchen by herself.

She was busy heating up the dishes, and said, "Before dinner at night, I will save a portion of each dish for you. You can wait a little bit."

I don't know if it's because he just drank wine, or because he suddenly entered the warm environment, Xiao Hailong's face was still flushed.

"What about Pavel and the others?" Shen Cangye asked.

"Pavel said she wanted to call her family, so she went back to her room first, and Thorn also went back." Wendy said, "Skadi was talking about waiting for you to come back, but she fell asleep and will wake up later. her."

Shen Cangye cast a glance, and saw the little killer whale curled up on the folding bed in the living room, seemingly sleeping soundly.

"Then don't wake her up." Shen Cangye waved his hand.

Finish this very late supper.

Looking at the time, it was almost midnight.

After finishing cleaning the kitchen, the two returned to the living room, turned off the lights and prepared to rest.

"You don't eat much, Wendy." Shen Cangye asked curiously, "Are you losing weight?"

"No more." Hai Long girl said, "It's because the eggnog we drank earlier has already filled our stomachs."

Only then did Shen Cangye remember that Wendy loves to be clean.

It's not that she is extremely hungry, she never eats street food.

Shen Cangye blamed himself for letting the girl wait for him for so long with an empty stomach for no reason.

Wendy saw the embarrassed expression on his face, so she pulled him back and said with a smile: "It's not bad to try something new, this wine tastes really good."

"It seems that Academician Wendy really likes this big gift from Santa Claus." Shen Cangye laughed.

Agor was startled, "Huh?"

"Didn't you just say that Santa Claus gave you eggnog as a gift?" Shen Cangye said, "Eggnog is so delicious? Do you think it's a big gift after being a good boy for so many years?"

"What!" Xiao Hailong smiled brightly, "It's not eggnog, it's you."

"what?"

"I said the gift from Santa Claus is you." Wendy said.

She turned around, put her hands behind her back, and looked into his eyes, "I met you here this year... I will temporarily forgive that Santa Claus who owes me gifts for many, many years."

"Really?" Shen Cangye smiled, "I don't know if Academician Wendy has read Stefan Zweig's "Queen of the Severed Head"?"

"What?" Wendy was stunned.

"There is a very famous sentence in it."

"You mean..."

Shen Cangye stretched out his index finger, shaking the lines in the storytelling book: "—she was still too young at that time, and she didn't know that all the gifts given by fate had already been secretly priced."

After speaking, he pulled the girl into his arms.

"Young girl, now is the time for fate to make you pay the price." Shen Cangye let out a cold laugh.

"You, you, what are you going to do!?"

Thinking of the last time he was kissed in the kitchen until her whole body went limp, the Agor girl shuddered.

She shyly turned around quickly and wanted to run to the room.

"Where are you going, Academician Wendy?" Shen Cangye grabbed her sea dragon's tail and pulled her back.

"Ah—the tail..." Wendy screamed, and she fell back into Shen Cangye's arms as if she had been locked in for a moment.

376. The Baby's Name Has Been Thought Already

Shen Cangye put his arms around the Agor girl, and kissed her forehead.

"Let's let you off tonight." Shen Cangye didn't bother the other party's weakness, "Remember your price, I can take it back anytime I want."

Wendy blushed, and hurriedly said: "Well, the price—what, I have...I have prepared a gift for you, isn't that okay? Wait for me...wait a while!"