As early as a week before the Lunar New Year, festive items such as Spring Festival couplets were posted in Shuguang City.
The elderly man with good writing skills obtained the consent of Xu Bai and others and wrote Spring Festival couplets and greetings for the residents in the commercial area of Shuguang City for free.
After learning that there was no charge, Xu Bai waved his hand and provided pen, ink and writing paper.
The old man was so happy that his eyes narrowed into slits.
Life in the end times is too tiring and hard, and is accompanied by fear and confusion about the future.
On New Year’s Eve.
A large banquet was held in Dawn City, and an awning was set up on the venue to prevent extreme weather such as sudden rain and snow.
Preparing meals for more than a thousand people would naturally not be done by He Minxing alone.
With voluntary registration, ten groups were temporarily formed, each with ten people forming a chef team.
The banquet began in the afternoon.
Xu Bai sat at the front table, looking at the hastily put together dining table. It was not arranged very neatly and was simply covered with a festive red cloth. It looked like a rural banquet before the end of the world. It was quite interesting when you looked at it closely.
Xu Bai held the wine glass in one hand and took the microphone prepared by Jiao Nanmu in the other.
She stood up and stared at the residents in front of her who were looking at her, but her mind recalled the pain, survival, and helplessness of the first year of the apocalypse in her previous life.
Comparing it with the current scenery, Xu Bai was very satisfied.
This kind of satisfaction does not mean low self-expectations, but only after experiencing the suffering of the end times can one understand that all this is hard-won.
"Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for surviving in this apocalypse. Thank you to the staff who are still working hard to guard the city gates. May our new year be prosperous and better."
Xu Bai simply said one sentence and then invited everyone to start eating and barbecuing...
In addition to being happy, some people contributed singing and dancing...
Despite this, everyone was still consciously controlling their voices and drinking in small sips.
As the city lord, Xu Bai was naturally offered many drinks. Listening to their gratitude and their wishes, Xu Bai began to get a little drunk...
In order to keep himself awake enough, Xu Bai left first, washed his face with cold water, and then went to the city gate to replace the city guard.
Xu Bai pulled their chair over and let the cold wind mess up her hair...
"Why are you here? Aren't you here to have fun with everyone and eat more?"
Xu Bai glanced at Ji Heng who came over and sat down, and asked in confusion.
"Aren't you the same?" Ji Heng asked back, sitting silently beside her, one hand in his pocket, holding the New Year's gift for Xu Bai in his palm. He was a little nervous for a moment, hesitating, looking for the right time to give the gift to her.
Xu Bai was stunned, "This is different."
"What's the difference?"
Xu Bai looked up at the gradually darkening sky and said with emotion, "I am the city lord, and my responsibilities are different."
Ji Heng looked at Xu Bai's fair profile and her slightly tired expression. He wanted to reach out and hold her in his arms, but when Xu Bai glanced at him, he gave up the hand he had just raised and instead gently tidied up her messed hair.
Seeing that Ji Heng was not used to her having disheveled hair, Xu Bai grabbed her hair and tied it up.
"That way I don't have to fix my hair."
"I'll be guarding the city gate. You can go back and have dinner with them. Don't be polite with me. You can keep watch later if you want."
In Xu Bai's opinion, when she thought about herself eating, drinking and having fun, she couldn't bear to let her residents guard the city gates on New Year's Eve. Even though the welfare during the New Year period started to triple, she still hoped that in the first year of the apocalypse, they could have a comfortable New Year's Eve dinner with their relatives and friends.
Ji Heng: “…”
Xu Bai didn't understand romance, and Ji Heng pursed his lips and sat beside her silently.
It was not until the next morning when the city security guards who came to take over the shift arrived that Xu Bai and Ji Heng left.
Ji Heng followed Xu Bai, and when they reached the street separating their houses, Ji Heng called out to Xu Bai, who was walking a few steps ahead.
"Xubai, can you close your eyes first?"
Xu Bai frowned, feeling that Ji Heng had been acting more and more strangely these days. Seeing Ji Heng's insistence and thinking of Ji Heng's usual character, Xu Bai chose to believe him and closed his eyes.
Most people who have survived the apocalypse for a long time are reluctant to reveal their backs to others, or close their eyes. No one can predict what might happen suddenly out of sight.
Her hand was gently lifted by Ji Heng, and it seemed as if something was being put into it.
Is it a bracelet?
Xu Bai guessed, and only opened her eyes when she heard Ji Heng say that she could open her eyes.
I saw the red woven bracelet on her left wrist. Upon closer inspection, I saw that the bracelet was woven into the shape of a Chinese character "Fu".
"A New Year's gift."
"I hope everything goes well for you and everything is safe."
Xu Bai raised his hand and pulled it out of Ji Heng's. He looked at the bracelet and nodded with satisfaction. "You're being so polite. I didn't even prepare a special New Year's gift for you."
Although Xu Bai loves money, he is also generous.
During the New Year's Eve dinner, every resident was given a red envelope, and Ji Heng was no exception.
But Ji Heng was the first person in Shuguang City to reciprocate the gift.
"Don't you have a red envelope?" Ji Heng smiled and touched Xu Bai's head. "Go back and have a rest. Sweet dreams."
Ji Heng turned around and walked back home, restraining his smile. He was really a little confused about Xu Bai's preferences. Sometimes she was very worried about him, and this worry even made him feel that it went beyond friendship. But Xu Bai's occasional lack of understanding of the situation made him feel that Xu Bai only regarded him as a friend, or even an ordinary resident.
Shi Qinghe had been waiting for Ji Heng to come back. She didn't even go back to her room and just lay on the sofa in the living room. She woke up when she heard the sound of the door opening.
Seeing that it was Ji Heng, she didn't even have time to put on her shoes. She jumped over the sofa and ran towards Ji Heng, asking anxiously, "How is it?"
"What did Xu Bai say? Did you agree to date, or are you considering it again?"
Ji Heng looked at Shi Qinghe quietly, walked away from him without saying a word, and walked to the water dispenser in the living room to pour himself some water.
"Well, when you pursue someone, failure is inevitable. Just persist. As long as she doesn't hate you, she will be moved by your feelings one day." Seeing that Ji Heng did not look happy, Shi Qinghe understood.
Xu Bai didn't agree to him!
He then spoke a few words of comfort.
"I didn't say that."
"Huh? Why don't you tell her? If you don't tell her, she'll understand what you mean. You didn't even give her a gift, did you? You worked hard all night long to weave it for over a month, and it wasn't bad at all. Why didn't you give it to her?"
Ji Heng learned the weaving skills from his mother Shi.
I practiced there every day when I had free time. After throwing away most of the ropes, I finally made a satisfactory bracelet.
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