Chapter 63
The little girl was probably too scared. She held on to Shi Ye's trouser legs tightly as if she had grabbed a life-saving straw and refused to let go no matter what.
Jiang Zhinian squatted on the side and tried to persuade him for a long time, and then Shi Ye pulled him up by the arm.
“Don’t squat for too long.”
"But she won't let go. What now?"
Shi Ye glanced down, bent down, and picked up the little girl.
"I'll take you to find your parents. Be a good boy, do you understand?" Shi Ye's tone was still businesslike as he faced the soft little girl.
The little girl blinked back her tears and nodded, then raised her arms and hugged Shi Ye's neck: "Brother, you are so handsome."
Jiang Zhinian:......
This beauty that attracts both men and women, from the age of eighty to three, is indeed not an exaggeration.
Shi Ye ignored the little girl's flattering words and just said to Jiang Zhinian, "Walk behind me."
I arrived at the patrol point with my child in my arms, and saw a woman violently beating the man next to her.
"I asked you to take Tiantian to buy a windmill, but you were so busy playing with your phone that you lost your daughter. I'm telling you, Gao, if you don't find your daughter today, I'll never forgive you."
"I've told you so many times, I'm not on my phone, I'm working. Besides, what's the point of you saying this now? Finding the child is the most important thing first."
"Work, work, what a crappy job. You're either in front of the computer or the phone all day long, and I don't see you making any money. Besides, how can I find someone with so many people here? Where can I find someone? Ah..." When the woman said this, she wailed and burst into tears.
"Mom——" the little girl shouted from a distance, patted Shi Ye's arm, got off the ground, and ran over.
The woman was so excited that she hugged the child in her arms, as if she was holding her whole world.
Jiang Zhinian breathed a sigh of relief: "It was really scary, luckily everything is fine."
If the little girl hadn't mistakenly recognized the wrong person and hugged Shi Ye's thigh...
She shook her head, not daring to think about it any further.
The little girl's father stood there for a while with an embarrassed look on his face, then walked towards Shi Ye.
"Thank you, thank you. It's all thanks to you. Otherwise, we really don't know what to do... Hey, you are..."
The man looked up and was stunned by Jiang Zhinian's face.
Jiang Zhinian was now like a frightened bird, instinctively filled with fear at the thought of running into a former classmate.
She hid behind Shi Ye and pulled his sleeve.
Shi Ye turned sideways to block the man's sight: "Do you know him?"
The man quickly shook his head: "Oh, no, I don't know him, it's just... he looks a little familiar, I recognized the wrong person, hahahaha."
He laughed guiltily and reluctantly. Shi Ye had a hunch that something was wrong. The way he looked at Jiang Zhinian was not like looking at a stranger.
At this time, the man's wife finally reacted and came over with the little girl. She insisted on keeping Shi Ye's contact information and said that she would thank him specially in the future.
Jiang Zhinian wanted to say no, but Shi Ye asked for the other party's contact information first.
After everyone left, Shi Ye put away his phone and asked Jiang Zhinian, "Do you have any impression of him?"
Jiang Zhinian thought about it and shook his head: "If he knows her, it can only be a former classmate."
But she doesn't have much contact with her former classmates.
"Maybe I recognized the wrong person." Shi Ye didn't want Jiang Zhinian to be troubled by this matter, so he brushed it off lightly, but he noticed out of the corner of his eye that the man was still secretly peeking in Jiang Zhinian's direction.
…
They went to a nearby supermarket.
Like the Spring Festival market, the supermarket is also extremely busy.
Jiang Zhinian leaned close to Shi Ye and whispered, "Isn't it like in a doomsday movie, when everyone rushes out to buy supplies?"
Shi Ye pointed to the long queue at the checkout counter and said, "No one will queue up to pay at the end of the world."
Jiang Zhinian was amused by his rare humor.
The two of them walked slowly arm in arm.
"Shi Ye, did anyone come to wish you a happy new year in previous years?" If so, would you also prepare some melon seeds, peanuts, etc.
"No."
When his mother was still alive, she would spend New Year's Eve working overtime, and when he was young, he would be sent to Aunt Zhou's house or Uncle Wen's house.
Later, when he grew up, he found it annoying and was basically alone at home, either reading or sleeping.
It was quiet, and he felt good about it.
"Aren't Jiang Tao and the others coming to play too?"
"Everyone is busy, so just send each other a message to wish each other a happy new year."
In Jiang Tao's line of work, the Chinese New Year is often the busiest time. Wang Bo is a local and has a lot of aunts and uncles, so he is too busy visiting relatives during the Chinese New Year. As for Zhou Hongsheng, if Jiang Tao and Wang Bo hadn't pulled him along, he would probably have preferred to be an online friend with the maximum intimacy with Shi Ye.
Jiang Zhinian also liked quietness, and happily hugged Shi Ye's arm: "Then it's just the two of us, and we won't join in the fun."
"Well, but I still have to find time to visit Uncle Liu and Uncle Wen on the second day of the New Year." This is his annual routine.
"Okay." They were Shi Ye's elders, so it was their duty to pay New Year's greetings. "Then let's buy some New Year's gifts, like nuts or something."
You can't go to someone else's house to wish them a happy new year empty-handed during the Chinese New Year.
"You decide."
"Okay." Jiang Zhinian walked to the shelf and happily picked nuts. Occasionally, he would take out his mobile phone to calculate the price per gram to see which one was more cost-effective.
Shi Ye walked over to her and pointed at the ingredient list with his finger: "When you buy things, you can pay attention to the ingredient list. If there are these ingredients, it's best not to buy it."
The simpler the ingredients of the food you eat, the better.
Jiang Zhinian said "Oh" and put the nuts of another brand back on the shelf.
…
The two of them returned home with a lot of bags.
After changing into home clothes, Shi Ye made a precise schedule in his mind of what he was going to do next.
"Let's put up the Spring Festival couplets and window decorations first."
Shi Ye walked out the door with the Spring Festival couplets. Because of his height advantage, he raised his hand to the right height and said, "Take a look."
Jiang Zhinian chewed the nuts he had just bought and looked at them carefully for a while: "Okay, but should the character for blessing be pasted upside down?"
Good fortune comes when good luck comes.
"Let's put this one upside down on the outside, and put it upside down on the inside of the door."
They also bought a lot of small blessing characters to stick in various corners of the house.
After pasting the Spring Festival couplets, the two returned to the house and very efficiently pasted the window decorations and hung up the lanterns. The whole house instantly became more festive.
Before I knew it, it was 3:30.
"Go and have a rest. I'll call you later."
Jiang Zhinian was a little excited and didn't feel like sleeping. "I saw online that on New Year's Eve, you should take a bath before eating the New Year's Eve dinner, change into new clothes, and then stay up cleanly."
Shi Ye nodded in agreement: "Then you take a shower first, I'll go prepare the dishes."
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