Chapter 88

On the Lantern Festival, Shi Ye still had to go to work.

The original plan was to eat dumplings together after get off work and then go to the central square to watch the lantern festival. However, at around 3 pm, a patient with a very urgent condition was sent to the emergency room. Shi Ye was taken into the operating room by his mentor to observe, so Jiang Zhinian had to eat by himself first and didn't have to wait for him.

Jiang Zhinian cooked the glutinous rice balls at home. Facing the empty chair, he tasted one with peanuts and one with sesame seeds, and put the rest in the pot to keep warm.

When Shi Ye returned home, he saw Jiang Zhinian sitting alone on the sofa wrapped in a blanket, watching the Lantern Festival Gala. Perhaps because the show was not very good, she looked a little drowsy.

But still cute, like some kind of furry house pet.

Shi Ye walked over and hugged the person in his arms.

Jiang Zhinian regained consciousness and rubbed his eyes. "Well, you're back... The dumplings are in the pot, with peanut and sesame fillings."

Shi Ye touched her earlobe: "Sorry, I broke my promise."

Jiang Zhinian leaned on his arm and shook his head: "You are a doctor, this is normal..."

Although she really wanted to see the light show, she could understand that human life was always more important than other things.

Shi Ye just received the photos of the lantern festival that Wang Bo sent to the group, saying that there are many varieties of lanterns this year, and the lights are brilliant and more beautiful than in previous years.

He looked up at the time and something moved him.

"The Lantern Festival ends at 10 o'clock. We can still make it if we go out now." Although we can only catch the tail end of it.

"Ah..." Jiang Zhinian was confused as Shi Ye packed up and threw her on the bed in the room. "But you haven't eaten the dumplings yet."

"Take it with you and eat it out."

This unplanned behavior was actually very inconsistent with Shi Ye's style, but he did it anyway against common sense.

Jiang Zhinian was still a little unsure whether she had fallen asleep while watching the party and was actually dreaming until she changed her clothes and was taken out.

We got off at the central square. Maybe it was getting late, the crowds had gradually dispersed, and it wasn't as crowded as it was around eight or nine o'clock.

Shi Ye raised his hand to check the time: "30 minutes left."

It was enough for them to walk from one end to the other, but Jiang Zhinian grabbed his sleeve.

"Shi Ye, you haven't eaten the glutinous rice balls yet."

In her traditional concept, eating glutinous rice balls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is considered to be the celebration of the festival.

Moreover, Shi Ye started the operation at 4 pm and rushed back. He probably hadn't eaten dinner yet, so the dumplings were just the right thing to fill his stomach.

She didn't want him to watch the lights with her on an empty stomach.

Shi Ye wanted to say that he was not hungry, but after seeing Jiang Zhinian's eyes, he swallowed the words back into his stomach. He looked around and took her behind a tree where there were few people.

Jiang Zhinian handed the thermos that she had been holding in her arms to Shi Ye, opened the lid, and steam rose from it.

Shi Ye was holding something in his hands and couldn't free his hands, so Jiang Zhinian fed him with a spoon.

"Is it sweet?"

"Sweet, how many did you eat?"

"Two." Shi Ye had told her not to eat too much. Firstly, the sugar content was too high, and secondly, glutinous rice was difficult to digest.

"Very well behaved."

Jiang Zhinian smiled so hard that his eyes curved, and fed him another one.

The two of them hid in this small world and ate dumplings, with the brightly lit street behind them. All the prosperity and loneliness had nothing to do with them. Only each other was the most important existence in their lives.

Shi Ye ate two and then shook his head, closing the thermos: "Let's go, let's go see the lights first."

The two of them held hands and walked slowly from one end of the Lantern Market. There were all kinds of stalls with a wide range of goods, including those that were common on the streets and many handicrafts carefully made by the stall owners.

But the prices were not cheap, and Jiang Zhinian was only willing to look but not buy.

About halfway through the walk, a small stall selling DIY lanterns caught Jiang Zhinian's attention. In addition to the beautiful appearance of the finished lanterns, the fact that the prices were nearly half the price of those sold at other stalls was also an important reason.

"Boss, are you still open now?"

"There are only 10 minutes left. If you can finish it, you can take it away for half price. If you can't finish it, you can leave it as a semi-finished product, but you have to buy a finished product at full price. Is that okay?"

Jiang Zhinian asked Shi Ye: "Is it okay?"

Shi Ye was good at large-scale handicrafts, but he had never tried anything this delicate. However, he said, "If you want, give it a try."

Jiang Zhinian smiled and asked the boss, "Can we do it together? I saw on your activity sign that the time limit is 15 minutes, and we only have 10 minutes. Can we do it together?"

This kind of activity is usually attended by more girls, as boys are careless and cannot handle such delicate lanterns. The boss thought that Shi Ye was probably such a boy, and one more person might even hinder the team, so he nodded in agreement.

Jiang Zhinian opened the material package, took a quick look, and handed the task of building the basic framework to Shi Ye, while he himself was responsible for preparing the adhesive flowers and ribbons for decoration.

The two of them had a clear division of labor and worked quickly, completing their respective tasks in less than 5 minutes. Jiang Zhinian took the lantern frame from Shi Ye and began to decorate it carefully, while Shi Ye handed her things according to her instructions.

The two people cooperated extremely well.

This was the first time that Shi Ye saw Jiang Zhinian look so serious. Usually, she was simple yet a little lazy, making people think of her as a well-protected girl.

But in fact, she has been trying very hard to live independently.

In the 8th minute, an exquisite and complex rabbit lantern was completed, and the boss couldn't help but applaud when he saw it.

With the mentality that she had earned money by only paying half, Jiang Zhinian walked happily beside Shi Ye, holding her rabbit lantern.

But the next second, the stalls on both sides began to turn off their hanging lights one by one. The event was over and they had to pack up and go home.

The originally bustling crowd around him suddenly became just a few people, and Jiang Zhinian was a little confused for a moment.

"Is it over..."

"Well, it's time."

Jiang Zhinian couldn't explain why he felt lost, but nodded sullenly: "Oh, then let's go home too."

"Why, are you unhappy?"

Jiang Zhinian shook his head: "I'm not unhappy, it's just... a little unsatisfied."

Just like when a story comes to an end, it always makes people feel melancholy.

Shi Ye put his arm around her shoulders and said, "Let's go home."

When she got home, Jiang Zhinian went to change into her pajamas. When she stepped on the night light and returned to the living room to look for Shi Ye, she found that the lights in the living room had been turned off at some point.

Only the rabbit lamp hanging on the hook was flashing and emitting a moving light.

Shi Ye walked over to Jiang Zhinian and hugged her in his arms: "Happy Lantern Festival."

"Happy Lantern Festival, Shi Ye." Jiang Zhinian suddenly had an idea, "Maybe we can buy a lantern every year and hang it at home."

In this way, the Lantern Festival will never end, just like their story will never come to an end.