36 Winter (1)
Li Yaya's circle of friends did cause quite a stir, especially among Guozi and her cousin, who called directly to "say hello". After getting the promise that she would bring her boyfriend back to meet them when she was free, she gave up.
Everyone sent their sincere blessings.
The awkward period between Li Yaya and Jiang Yi after they transitioned from friends to lovers has passed, and they have become an ordinary couple among thousands of couples.
There is really no conflict between falling in love and working or paying off debts.
Instead, it revitalized her emotions. Life became vibrant. Winter in the south was different from winter in the mountains. There was no freezing cold or heavy snow, just cold and damp.
Fortunately, there is someone now who can snuggle with her for warmth.
Life was the same as usual, yet a little different. The same thing happened: Li Yaya was still working two jobs and commuting as usual. The difference was that Li Yaya moved in with the Jiang family.
The reason was simple: his house was much warmer than hers. The biggest drawback of homes in older neighborhoods was their tendency to get damp. Plus, the appliances were old and consumed a lot of electricity, so Li Yaya couldn't bear to turn on the air conditioner.
Li Yaya couldn't adapt to the winter in the south. After catching a bad cold again, Jiang Yi suggested that she stay at his house for a while.
Afraid that Li Yaya would think too much, he explained repeatedly that it was only because his house was indeed a little warmer, and one air conditioner was enough for two people, and it also saved money.
Jiang Yi was extremely nervous when he said this, afraid that Li Yaya would think he had some "ulterior motives." Although he knew that as a healthy adult male, some thoughts were normal, he still had to wait for the other party to agree. Jiang Yi shook his head, getting rid of these strange thoughts in his mind.
Li Yaya seemed to know what Jiang Yi was nervous about. She didn't say anything, but just packed some of her daily necessities and quietly moved into Jiang Yi's house.
She was really afraid of the cold. She couldn't stand the feeling of the quilt never being warm enough and her feet always being cold.
The Jiang family's home was indeed warm, and two people were indeed warmer than one.
It’s just that the two of them have different schedules. Besides both of them going to bed late, they each have their own messes, and they need to adjust to each other, and they need to adjust to each other well.
Jiang Yi often stayed up after returning home from the bar, working at his workbench. He would often wake up at dawn before going to bed, and then wake up in the afternoon.
Li Yaya sometimes has to get up early to go to the cake shop, and sometimes goes after noon.
When two people live under the same roof, they basically never sleep at the same time.
Moreover, Jiang Yi also used his actual actions to verify what he said before - he really liked sleeping on the sofa. Li Yaya often found Jiang Yi sleeping on the sofa when she woke up in the morning.
On the one hand, Jiang Yi really liked sleeping on the sofa, but on the other hand, he was afraid that going back to the bedroom would wake Li Yaya. He discovered that Li Yaya was a light sleeper.
He wanted her to have as much rest as possible.
But Li Yaya felt that no matter how much she liked sleeping on the sofa, it would not be as comfortable as sleeping on the bed.
When two people are together, eating becomes more meaningful.
If Li Yaya gets off work at two o'clock in the afternoon, she will rest for a while after getting home, then get up at about the same time as Jiang Yi, have dinner together, and then go to the bar to work together.
If Li Yaya was at work at two in the afternoon, she would glance at the sleeping Jiang Yi and then quietly leave. Then, after work in the evening, they would go out for wontons together or go home to eat something else.
They had a tacit understanding that they had to have a meal together every day.
Having someone to eat with is really important.
Time slips away day by day, and the cold winter month arrives, along with it comes the most important festival of the year for Chinese people - the Spring Festival.
That day, there was a cold rain mixed with some icy particles.
Li Yaya got home from work and was greeted by the rich aroma of hot pot the moment she opened the door. The hot pot was bubbling away at the dining table. Jiang Yi was busy washing vegetables in the kitchen. When he heard the door open, he popped his head out and said, "Douya, wash your hands and have dinner." Then he went back inside.
Li Yaya looked at the scene in front of her, stunned, and replied "OK" after a long time.
Jiang Yi got up early, a rare occasion. He looked out the window at the gloomy sky. The moment he opened the window, a gust of cold air hit him. Today was the perfect day for hot pot.
Then he got out of bed, looked at the approximate time Li Yaya would come home, and prepared the ingredients for the hot pot.
Li Yaya's frozen heart, at this moment, completely melted under Jiang Yi's silent and gradual "strategy". She looked at everything in the room, which was gradually filled with traces of her life. Her figure was everywhere, in the entrance, on the balcony, in the corner of the sofa...
Some people went home with her, some waited for her to have dinner together, and some warmed her cold hands.
With Jiang Yi, ordinary days became no longer ordinary, and she began to look forward to every day in the future.
"Why are you standing there? Wash your hands and eat." Jiang Yi's voice came again, completely bringing Li Yaya back to her senses.
After washing their hands, the two of them sat at the dining table, each with a bowl. It was freezing cold outside, but steam was sizzling inside. Two people, one pot, it seemed like happiness in ordinary life was like this.
As if he suddenly thought of something, Jiang Yi suddenly asked Li Yaya, "Douya, are you going home for the New Year?"
"No." Without a second thought, Li Yaya answered directly. A trip back for Mid-Autumn Festival was enough for her for now. Going back for Chinese New Year would inevitably involve relatives asking questions, which she didn't like. Round-trip tickets were also hard to buy, so she might as well stay and earn her third salary before finding time to go back.
Anyway, it doesn't matter where she is.
Seeing Jiang Yi hesitate to speak, Li Yaya finally reacted, "You want to go home for the New Year, right? It's okay, you don't have to worry about me, I can handle it here by myself."
Jiang Yi is different, he has a family and a father and a mother.
Jiang Yi put down his chopsticks and looked at Li Yaya with a serious expression, as if he was talking about something important. Li Yaya was so nervous that she also put down her chopsticks. "What's wrong? Is there something wrong?"
"Ah~" Jiang Yi sighed before speaking, "Didn't I tell you that after graduation I had a big fight with my family and we lost contact?"
"No, why not?"
No matter how much we quarrel, we won’t lose contact. After all, we are still a family.
Jiang Yi's dream since childhood was to make music. In high school, he wanted to study music, and his family coaxed and tricked him into pursuing music, promising that once he passed college, they would no longer care about him and let him pursue music. Jiang Yi lived up to their expectations and successfully passed college. During his four years at college, they didn't try to stop him from pursuing music, but after graduation, they arranged a job for him and asked him to stay home to work.
After graduating and returning home, Jiang Yi felt like the sky had fallen. It turned out they had been deceiving him the entire time, tricking him into studying, tricking him into going to college, tricking him into returning home, and even trying to use the same tricks to trick him into a job, a blind date, and even marriage...
They told him that being a musician wouldn't lead to anything, since he wasn't a professional. So many music graduates couldn't make a living, so what future could he, a non-professional, have?
At that moment, he decided to escape. He just didn't believe that as a person with full civil capacity, he couldn't make a name for himself.
In the end, it was Jiang Si who returned home, and with the help of both inside and outside forces, he escaped from home smoothly. She also gave him 20,000 yuan, and then told him that even if he ran out of money in the future, he should not ask her for more, and not contact her for no reason. If he couldn't make a name for himself, he should just go home and listen to her arrangements.
Jiang Si is the only person in the family who has not blocked him. The last time he contacted him was because of Jiang Yi’s circle of friends, which was about his love life.
Jiang Si commented: This little girl is really blind.
So, he didn't want to go home.
Or perhaps he is too embarrassed to go home now.
Or what if he gets forced to work again when he returns home?
Li Yaya understood what Jiang Yi meant, but she didn't know what to say.
It's inappropriate to persuade him to go home, or not. On some matters, bystanders can offer fair and objective opinions. But family matters are beyond the reach of outsiders.
He had no standard to measure, and sometimes he couldn't even tell right from wrong. Everyone stood from their own perspective, from the point of view of "for your own good", and she had no way to judge.
"Then think about it carefully. If you want to go back, go back without worrying about me. If you really don't want to go back—" Li Yaya paused, "It would be nice if we could celebrate the New Year together."
However, Li Yaya still wanted Jiang Yi to go home.
Because she envied everyone who had a home to return to.
"Why don't you persuade me to go home or something like that?" Jiang Yi thought Li Yaya would persuade him to go home, but unexpectedly, she just asked him to think about it carefully.
"No advice. No matter how much others say, if you can't figure it out yourself, it's meaningless."
What Li Yaya said is very true. Everyone has his or her own stubbornness, and there are people and things that he or she avoids and does not want to face. No one has the right to influence other people's thoughts or make so-called decisions for others.
After dinner, Jiang Yi asked Li Yaya to take a nap and he would clean up.
Li Yaya didn't hesitate and fell asleep after eating and drinking. She always felt that she had gained weight recently, eating and sleeping, and eating again.
Jiang Yi said no, because it didn't feel good when pinched. She also said she was too thin and needed to eat more.
Li Yaya rolled her eyes.
After Jiang Yi finished cleaning the table, he sat at the workbench in a daze.
I don’t know how long I thought about it, then I called Jiang Si.
"Beep, beep, beep - Hello." Jiang Si's voice sounded. Jiang Si on the other end of the phone sounded hurried, and I didn't know what he was doing.
"Sister." Jiang Yi called out "Sister" obediently.
Jiang Si was a little suspicious of her cuteness. He took another look at the note and said doubtfully, "If you have something to say, just tell me. You don't want money, do you?"
"That's not necessary."
"It's something even more outrageous than asking for money. What is that?"
"Sister, I won't go home for the New Year." Jiang Yi said.
But during the phone call, Jiang Si was silent and did not answer for a long time.
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