Chapter 45 Chapter 45 "Baby~...
"Baby~Baby~"
"Baby, I'm dead~ Help me kill him baby~"
In the living room, several boys were laughing so hard that they were falling all over the place. Ning Ji's ears turned red, and he kicked Zhao Xu, who was playing with the game controller, with a fierce look on his face.
Zhao Xu fell on the carpet in front of the sofa with laughter, "Wow, you don't know, he also wants to give that figurine to Yan Sui."
"Yes, last time Yifei touched the figurine and got punched twice. When someone came, he immediately asked the person -"
Zhao Xu pinched his throat and imitated it perfectly: "Do you like it? Do you like me to send you off?"
"Ning Ji, why didn't you wear a couple tag with me when you played games with me?"
"That's right, why don't you tie a couple tag with Yifei, and why don't you call us baby when you play games with us?"
Ning Ji kicked everyone one by one, and Tang Yifei laughed, "It's really red raining from the sky, and you actually called Yan Sui baby?"
Tang Yifei, who lived next door to him, was in the same grade but different class as him in high school. Whenever he visited other classes, he would often see Ning Ji secretly giving Yan Sui the middle finger.
Ning Ji said with a stern face: "What baby? I didn't call him baby. I was just teasing the other person while playing games."
Zhao Xu: "Are you trying to make fun of us together?"
Ning Ji: "If you say one more word, I'll tell Aunt Zhao that you secretly formed a band this year."
Zhao Xu sighed, "Ning Xiaoji, you betrayed your old love for your new love?"
Ning Ji threw the fur ball that the kitten usually played with at Zhao Xu, "Get lost, what's the point of loving or not loving me?"
He called Yan Sui again.
Zhao Xu and Tang Yifei in the living room were strumming the guitars in their hands. Clear and pleasant guitar sounds rang out, and while playing the guitars they sang an irresistible love song in the direction of Ning Ji in a frivolous manner.
"Are you partying with friends?"
Ning Ji, "Don't worry about them, they came to my house to write music."
Zhao Xu likes music and has wanted to start a band since high school, but his family thinks it is not a proper job. Zhao Xu's guitar and music are all in Ning Ji's room, and he would gather at Ning Ji's house to write music during holidays.
Ning Ji lay on the bed, "Do you want to see the kittens? I took a lot of pictures of them."
Yan Sui: "Is there a photo of you?"
Ning Ji: "Ah? What do you want my photo for?"
Yan Sui's voice on the other end of the phone sounded a little unreal, "I want to see it. It feels like I haven't seen you for a long time."
Ning Ji moved his ears and sat up. He felt his face a little hot for unknown reasons. Listening to these words, he felt strange and sticky - why did he talk about the same thing as Gao Xing and his friends in the dormitory when they were chatting on the phone with their girlfriends.
He said, "That's weird. Don't say such things."
Yan Sui apologized to him, "Well, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say those words, I just felt that we haven't seen each other for a long time."
Ning Ji: "It's okay."
He asked again: "Yan Sui, do you get along with your friends like this?"
The voice on the other end of the phone was a little distant, as if the owner of the phone had moved the phone further away. Someone could be vaguely heard reminding softly, "The meeting will start soon..."
Ning Ji paused and said to the person on the phone: "Are you busy?"
During this period, when I opened the location sharing software that I had used with Yan Sui, I often saw Yan Sui traveling around several cities, and he would only be online late at night to play games occasionally.
Yan Sui on the other end of the phone said to him: "It's okay, I'll video chat with you tonight."
"Can you play games with me tonight?"
Ning Ji: "No problem."
In the evening, around ten o'clock, Ning Ji received a video call.
He connected the video. The background in the video was very dim. Yan Sui only showed half of his face. He sat in the car. After a while, he smiled at him and called his name, "Ning Ji."
"Are you going to bed?"
Ning Ji was lying on the bed, covered with a quilt, lying on his side, with a soft night light on beside the bed.
Yan Sui asked him, "Do you want to go to bed early today?"
Ning Ji's face was pressed against the quilt, his hair fell softly on his eyebrows, and a few strands of hair drooped down his nose. He lazily responded through his nose, "Yeah, my parents just came back from a business trip."
Ning's father thinks that staying up late is harmful to the body and does not approve of Ning Ji's usual routine.
Ning Ji thought of something, wrinkled his nose again, and muttered in a complaining tone: "I have to get up at 6:30 tomorrow morning to go for a morning run..."
He looked at Yan Sui in the video, "You haven't gone home yet?"
Yan Sui: "Well, I'll be back soon."
He put the tilted phone back. In the dim car, his handsome face was filled with deep fatigue, but his voice was still clear and smiling. "How is Kitty today? Did you eat well?"
Ning Ji: "Yes, I opened two cans and ate them all."
Yan Sui: "What about you?"
Ning Ji: "Me? I'm still the same as before, eating..."
Before he could finish his words, he moved his ears and heard light footsteps outside the bedroom door, and immediately shut his mouth.
After waiting for the footsteps to leave, Ning Ji explained, "My dad is used to checking whether I have stayed up late before going to bed."
Yan Sui on the other end of the video suddenly called him: "Ning Ji."
Ning Ji: "Yeah?"
Yan Sui laughed: "Do you know what we were similar to just now?"
Ning Ji: "Like what?"
Yan Sui: "Like the high school students who had premature love affairs with their classmates and secretly called their parents at night."
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"Move it a little to the side - oh, yes, right here..."
Ms. Lian held up another couplet and directed Ning's father to post it. When the couplet was finished, she raised her voice to Ning Ji inside the door and said, "Son, go take the couplet written by your father on the table to your Aunt Zhao."
Ning Ji bit an apple and strolled to the opposite building with the couplets in his hand to deliver them.
It was New Year's Eve and the snow was still falling. Ning Ji handed the couplet to Zhao Xu and took the apple from his mouth. "Did you buy anything?"
Zhao Xu gestured to him, indicating that Bao Wentu was safe, and then asked him, "Are you really not going to the beach with us to set off fireworks?"
Zhao Xu thought: "My mom and dad, Yifei's mom and dad, and your mom and dad... have signed up for a tour group to travel abroad. We'll be the only ones left at home. We can go to the beach together to set off fireworks and have a barbecue."
"Yifei has bought everything."
Ning Ji chewed the apple in two or three bites and said, "No, I'm going to spend the night with my friend."
Zhao Xu looked him up and down, and gave him a sly smile: "A baby is just a baby, what friend... Isn't he going to celebrate the New Year with his family?"
Ning Ji: "His family always bullies him, and he doesn't want to live with them."
Lunar New Year's eve.
Ms. Lian and Ning's father were both on vacation on the island, and Ning Ji was sent to spend the New Year at his uncle's house. His aunt had loved Ning Ji since he was a child, and when she saw him carrying New Year's goods, she smiled and shouted towards the house: "Hey, the little prodigy is here!"
Ning Ji touched his nose and said helplessly while changing his shoes: "Aunt, I'm almost twenty years old."
The aunt didn't listen to him, but happily stuffed some candy into his mouth, still calling him a little prodigy. A bunch of relatives were sitting in the living room, and when they saw him coming, they smiled and asked him what major he studied in college and whether he had a boyfriend.
After hearing Ning Ji say that he was not in a relationship, the group said, "Hey, don't just focus on studying, you can also have a relationship in your spare time..."
After eating the New Year's Eve dinner, Ning Ji said hello to all his relatives and went out openly under the pretext of going to visit Zhao Xu.
The aunt's family knew that Zhao Xu lived next door to Ning Ji's family, and the parents of the two families had known each other for more than ten years, so they felt relieved after giving them a few words of advice.
When Ning Ji ran downstairs, Zhao Xu and others were waiting downstairs. When they saw him, they laughed and stuffed a bulging bag of things into his pocket, "Here, I bought everything."
"You really don't want to go to the beach with us? When did you get along so well with him?"
Tang Yifei drove a car specially for him, stuck his head out of the car, whistled at Ning Ji, and said with a smile: "Let's go together, everyone is here."
Ning Ji got into the car and looked down at his phone. "No, no, I just sent you the address. Take me there."
A group of people in the car laughed and scolded him for being heartless.
Ning Ji sighed and rolled down the window. The car sped away and the scattered snowflakes floating in the air immediately poured into the car, making people shiver with cold.
Tang Yifei drove the car and shouted with a smile: "I told you not to tease him——"
Half an hour later.
Ning Ji got out of the car, Zhao Xu rolled down the window, made a phone call gesture to him, and said with a smile: "If he is not at home, call us again and we will pick you up to go to the beach for a barbecue."
Ning Ji swiped his phone twice, looked at the gray man on the location-sharing app, and showed him his sharp fangs. "No need."
He walked quickly towards Yan Sui's house with the things in his arms.
It was a very quiet area of old houses, most of which were bought by wealthy people for retirement purposes, as they saw the suitable summer climate in Quanzhou. They were very expensive, and there were fewer people there in winter.
There was thick snow piled up on both sides of the road, and the whole place was covered with white snow. A few houses hung red lanterns. The snow kept falling, and it rolled down in the soft and dim night wind.
Ning Ji started running.
The choking cold air rushed into my lungs and the mist from my exhaled breath rose.
He felt that he was running faster and faster against the wind, and that he felt lighter and lighter as he ran. The things in his arms rustled, and he was unaware of the cold wet snow brushing against his cheeks. The only sound in his ears was the whistling wind.
The garden courtyard of the old detached house has been neglected for a long time. There is thick snow on it and the wooden shutters are closed. It is located in the central area and there is nothing in sight, with no other houses.
The bell-shaped copper bell hanging quietly in front of the door was suddenly rang by someone, making a crisp sound.
Yan Sui, who was on the second floor, heard the bell, stood up, walked to the balcony, pushed open the blinds, and looked stunned.
In the snow, a boy in a light khaki lamb wool lapel jacket looked up at him, his face red from the cold, his black eyes as bright as obsidian, his beautiful eyebrows and eyes seemed to be glowing. He held a bunch of fireworks in his arms, exhaled white air, and called his name with a smile.
The wanton and flamboyant young man, invincible in his youth, shouted with a smile in the whistling wind: "Yan Sui, Happy New Year! Come out and set off the fireworks!"
The heater was on in the room, but it was freezing cold outside the window.
Yan Sui always felt that the winters in Quan City were too cold. It snowed early every winter. Compared with Jin City where he had lived since he was a child, it was so cold that people didn’t want to go out in winter.
But it is precisely because winter is so cold that the bright spring and hot summer are so precious, and the vitality accumulated throughout the winter that bursts out is so powerful and contagious.
His spring and summer came a little late, but fortunately he did not miss it.
Footsteps suddenly sounded.
Rapid, chaotic, and finally calm.
The door was opened, and Ning Ji, who was holding a bunch of fireworks, was tightly embraced by the visitor. He felt so restrained that he could hardly move.
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