Enchanted (GL)

Chapter 107 New Year’s Eve

Approaching New Year’s Eve.

Qiao Zhiyu sat at the desk, browsing the project files on the computer screen, and occasionally heard the sound of a few fingertips tapping the keyboard.

Ji Xi returned to Rongcheng a few days ago, and Qiao Qing also sent it to Qiao’s house, so now the house is very deserted.

Qiao Zhiyu hasn’t spent the Spring Festival in China for several years. In fact, she doesn’t spend much of it. Apart from sending out some “Happy New Year” blessings formally, the rest is no different.

Ji Xi wanted to stay in Beilin and Qiao Zhiyu, but Qiao Zhiyu insisted that they had a lot of time there, and asked Ji Xi to go back to accompany her grandmother during the holiday.

The old man is getting older and not in good health. He has called several times to ask Ji Xi when he will be on vacation.

-It’s not a big deal to celebrate a reunion festival for oneself. For so many years, Qiao Zhi has been used to it.

I’ve been watching the screen for a long time, and my eyes are a little tired. Qiao Zhi is more than bored and picked up the phone and glanced at it. At ten o’clock, she guessed someone was going to call her.

Sure enough, there was such a tacit understanding that Qiao Zhiyu came in after talking on the phone before putting down his cell phone.

“Did you take a shower?” Qiao Zhiyu held the phone to his ear. The internet in the countryside is poor, and their videos are basically impossible. Even the phone calls will get stuck from time to time.

“Well, what are you doing?”

“Work overtime, look at the file.” Qiao Zhiyu dragged a little ending, lay on the back of the seat, and murmured softly: “Miss you.”

Ji Xi lowered his head and smiled softly.

“Don’t you say-next?”

“…I miss you too.” Ji Xi said lightly and quickly. She is still not used to putting such words on her lips, but was influenced by Qiao Zhiyu, she is at least more exquisite than before. I still work overtime during the holidays.”

Qiao Zhiyu: “Find something to do.”

“Have you eaten on time?” Ji Xi asked-one by one, with trivial and plain concerns, even on boring topics.

“Do you think I am you?” Qiao Zhiyu asked in turn, “I have learned a lot of dishes from Aunt Li these days and I am good at cooking.”

“Aunt Li is going home too.” Ji Xi said, the day after tomorrow is New Year’s Eve, and she will go home for reunion.

“Go back tomorrow.”

“How do you spend New Year’s Eve?” Ji Xi didn’t need to guess, Qiao Zhiyu would definitely not return to Qiao’s house. She had considered bringing Qiao Zhiyu back to Rongcheng before, but after thinking about it carefully, she gave it up.

Qiao Zhiyu licked his lips, his tone casual and indifferent: “I haven’t had this for so many years, there is still a lot of work to be done.”

With regard to work, if you want to be busy, you will always be busy. Qiao Zhiyu likes to use this to pass the time before.

“Are you at home tomorrow?” Ji Xi asked again suddenly.

“how?”

Ji Xi had her own plans a long time ago. She thought about it and said, “I have prepared a New Year’s Eve gift for you in advance, and it will be delivered tomorrow.”

“At home.” Qiao Zhiyu asked curiously: “What New Year’s Eve gift?”

Ji Xi was quiet for a while, “I’ll know tomorrow, you should like it.”

Qiao Zhiyu became more curious and smiled: “It will be sold out.”

…

When Ji Nan returned to the room after washing, she saw who Ji Xi had just finished talking on the phone, and the smile on her face had not disappeared. The contrast between her sister and the previous one was so obvious that it was difficult for her to not notice anything.

“Who is so happy to call and laugh?” Ji Nan asked Ji Xi casually.

Ji Xi smiled, but didn’t answer.

Ji Nan also climbed onto the bed, and after sitting down beside Ji Xi, she looked at Ji Xi as if she had something to say, but did not speak.

Seeing Ji Nan hesitating to speak, Ji Xi said, “Why are you staring at me?”

Ji Nan continued to stare at Ji Xi, pursing his lips, still looking like he wanted to talk but stopped.

Ji Xi didn’t know what Ji Nan was vomiting, “Tell me something?”

Ji Nan pulled the quilt and couldn’t help but ask Ji Xi, “Did you fall in love?”

Ji Xi was silent.

“You’ve fooled grandma, but you can’t fool me. You are going to Beilin tomorrow, certainly not because of work.” Ji Nan hopes that Ji Xi will have a good home, and she can understand that Ji Xi does not want to be at home for the New Year.

“It’s really something.” Ji Xi smiled helplessly, and perfunctory Ji Nan: “study hard and worry about it.”

“You are my elder sister, I care why you are so worried?” Ji Nan and Ji Xi reasoned.

“Sleep.” Ji Xi didn’t plan to talk anymore.

Ji Nan solemnly called out: “Sister.”

Ji Xi looked at Ji Nan again.

“You have such a good relationship with Sister Zhiyu.” Ji Nan squeezed the sheet in her hand and was puzzled: “Are you living now? Last video, you stayed overnight at her house.”

Before-a sentence about falling in love, after-a sentence about Qiao’s surpassing, Ji Xi subconsciously contacted him, and felt that he was too sensitive to think too much?

Ji Nan’s thin lips pressed into a line, paying attention to the expression on Ji Xi’s face.

Except in front of Qiao Zhiyu, Ji Xi is very good at facial expression management, and she can be calm even when her heart is fluctuating. “Remember, I was adopted by my parents from the orphanage?”

Ji Nan unexpectedly Ji Xi actually took the initiative to talk about this. She was the first time to hear Ji Xi say that she also-evasively presupposes this in front of Ji Xi.

“She is too. We are in an orphanage. We have known each other since we were young. We only discovered it some time ago.” Ji Xi told the truth.

“Such a coincidence?” Ji Nan was incredible.

“Yeah.” Ji Xi hadn’t thought about telling her sister and grandma about the matter with Qiao Zhiyu. She thought, maybe she would never tell her grandma.

Said a few words.

When the lights were turned off, the small house fell into silence.

Ji Nan was lying on her back, thinking about it in her mind, and still thinking about things. She had enough reasons to doubt the relationship between Ji Xi and Qiao Zhiyu.

Last time, she made a video call to Ji Xi. In the evening, Ji Xi and Qiao Zhiyu were in the same room. They both were wearing pajamas. What’s more, she vaguely saw Ji Xi under the collarbone at the neckline. Mark of.

Ji Nan is not young anymore, and he understands many things. She closed her eyes, still not drowsy. There is a pimple in my heart.

Ji Xi turned over, and the loose bed board rang slightly. Ji Nan guessed that Ji Xi should have not slept yet, so she turned over and lay on her side, facing Ji Xi.

“sister.”

Ji Xi: “Huh?”

Ji Nan was silent, and in the dark, it seemed to pause for a long, long time. She couldn’t see Ji Xi’s face, she thought about it, slowly, she whispered: “No matter what you do, I will support you.”

It sounds like a headless sentence, but it also implies a lot. Ji Xi’s mind is equally delicate, and he has a vague intuition that Ji Nan has guessed something, “Why do you say this suddenly?”

Ji Nan smiled-laughed, and said, “It’s nothing. I just want to tell you.”

“Yeah.” Ji Xi said softly.

In the evening, Ji Xi had a bit of insomnia. Perhaps it was because of what Ji Nan said. In fact, she really wanted to tell-take care of her grandma, she is very happy now, and she has found someone who wants to stay together.

It would be a pity to keep it from grandma.

After staying in Rongcheng for just a few days, the day before New Year’s Eve, Ji Xi returned to Beilin early on the grounds of work.

She bought the ticket early.

It is the afternoon to the north.

It didn’t snow in Beilin, and the sun came out. The sun in winter is always gratifying, even in the sub-zero temperature, it makes people feel warm.

Walking into the familiar neighborhood, Ji Xi-Lu was thinking, how would Qiao Zhiyu react when he saw her, would he be pleasantly surprised?

Qiao Zhiyu opened the door, and when Ji Xi and Nuan Yang-Qi came into her eyes, she was indeed pleasantly surprised. She had never thought that someone would be like this-silently and ran back. Just five minutes ago, Ji Xi sent her a WeChat message, saying that it was being delivered.

Boring gourd is promising, it will be a surprise, and New Year’s Eve gifts are being delivered.

“Ji Xi, is it fun to lie to me?” It was windy outside, and Qiao Zhiyu hurriedly pulled Jixi into the house, sounding like he was complaining, but the smile on his face completely exposed the bottom of his heart.

“I learned it from you.” Ji Xi said with a smile, her cheeks and nose tip were flushed by the wind, and she became cold when she entered the house.

Qiao Zhiyu pulled Ji Xi’s cold hands, watching her smile, rubbing her hands to help her warm up, “Why are you back today?”

Ji Xi’s hands were surrounded by warmth. She looked at Qiao Zhiyu: “I want to spend the New Year at home. When I return to Rongcheng, I will see my grandma and sister.”

Although both grandma and younger sister treat her as relatives, in Ji’s family, she doesn’t actually have a sense of belonging at home, and not everyone accepts her. When I was with Qiao Zhiyu, she felt more at home, because of the love, and the sympathy for sharing the same experience.

Qiao Zhiyu was touched by the phrase “Chinese New Year at home”. She already considers the place where Ji Xi is home, and I am very happy that Ji Xi thinks so too. She hugged Ji Xi, touching Ji Xi’s cheek with one hand, “Why don’t you tell me in advance? I can pick you up, my face is frozen.”

“A surprise for you.” Ji Xi wrapped her arms around Qiao Zhiyu, “–Is it boring to be at home?”

“What do you mean?” Qiao Zhiyu said aggrievedly, admitting that her mouth was hard, and she still wanted Ji Xi to be by her side. It’s like thinking of tomorrow New Year’s Eve, but she is-personally, somewhat empty in her heart, but Ji Xi-appeared in front of her, and her heart was immediately filled with something.

Ji Xi knew that Qiao Zhiyu was most afraid of loneliness, and she knew that before they were there. She slowly tightened her arms around Qiao Zhiyu, “I will be with me from now on.”

“Next year, I will accompany you-let’s go back to see grandma.” Qiao Zhiyu discussed with Ji Xi, “okay?”

“Yeah.” Ji Xi smiled and nodded. She happened to think the same way. She also wanted to ask Qiao Zhiyu whether she would like it or not, but Qiao Zhiyu would take the initiative to bring it up. Even if he couldn’t confess Qiao Zhiyu’s identity to her grandmother, Ji Xi still wanted the old man to know that he had someone by his side.

Two people’s New Year’s Eve dinner should also be prepared well. Ji Xi and Qiao Zhiyu went out to visit the supermarket and bought several bags of various ingredients and snacks.

On New Year’s Eve, the TV in the living room was broadcasting a program, beaming with joy. Ji Xi and Qiao Zhiyu are busy in the kitchen with their sleeves rolled up, making dumplings, so they don’t have a new year.

Ji Xi has been accustomed to work since childhood, kneading dough, rolling dumpling wrappers, running smoothly and cleanly.

Qiao Zhiyu’s action of making dumplings seemed very strange. She-while making the dumplings-asked Ji Xi: “Is it okay to make dumplings like this?”

Ji Xi turned his head to look, and smiled without giving face. Every time Qiao Zhi went over to cook, he was inexplicably sloppy and at a loss. There was a kind of contrast in peacetime.

“Wrong?” Qiao Zhiyu looked at Ji Xi and just smiled.

Ji Xi said solemnly: “You are so ugly.”

Qiao Zhiyu looked at Ji Xi silently, then leaned over, quietly dipped his fingertips with flour, and drew two white mustaches on Ji Xi’s lips childishly, and asked: “Are you ugly?”

This time Ji Xi was speechless, she slapped a tooth for a tooth, rubbing her hand against Qiao Zhiyu’s face, giggling as she watched Qiao Zhiyu and laughed.

Qiao Zhiyu: “Naive.”

Ji Xi was confident: “Are you really embarrassed to say me?”

Qiao Zhiyu ordered: “Teach me to make dumplings.”

“Ok.”

Ji Xi walked—washing her hands by the side. She took a paper towel to dry her hands. Turning around, she saw Qiao Zhiyu’s slender waist. She stepped forward and hugged Qiao Zhiyu from behind. The posture teaches Qiao Zhiyu to make dumplings.

Qiao Zhiyu looked back, flattered.

Why look at herself with such a look, Ji Xiluo is a bit at a loss, she gently asked Qiao Zhiyu: “Will you still learn?”

Qiao Zhiyu didn’t speak, and kissed with a smile-next to Ji Xi’s lips.

Ji Xi’s chin rested on Qiao Zhi’s shoulders, her lips pursed and smiled. New Year’s Eve with only two people can also be lively and warm.