For winter melon, this piece is ripe.

It's so familiar that before Xu Qing picked it up, the large trash cans in the corner of the wall were its canteen...

"Does it think we are going to throw it back?" Xu Qing asked thoughtfully when he saw the winter melon hidden behind Jiang He's legs.

"Throw it back where?"

"Over there, I picked it up from over there."

Jiang He followed his gaze and then walked in the opposite direction: "Then we won't pass."

The winter sun was not very warm, but it shone warmly on the body. Both of them were well fed, and the winter melons had just been fed. The two of them held hands and walked back and forth, looking very leisurely.

After being bored for a while, she couldn't help but ask: "Do you just like picking up things?"

"No, I only pick up things I like."

Xu Qing replied, looking up at the small colorful flags flying everywhere in the community, and said: "It's the New Year, it seems like you have a New Year there too, right?"

Before Jiang He could answer, he asked and answered himself: "Anyway, there is definitely no such thing as New Year celebrations. You can eat and drink at will... In the early years, fireworks and firecrackers were set off, but now they are not allowed to set off, so they can only set off secretly."

"New Year's Eve?"

"On the day of family reunion, generally speaking, those who are out of town have to go home no matter how far away they are. That's why there is such a thing as Spring Festival travel. As I have shown you before, so many people are crowded together on the train."

Jiang He didn't say anything. He looked at the sky through the big trees in the community that had withered only their branches and sighed.

"My home is your home. I will take you there to post Spring Festival couplets another day... We will post them here too."

"Um."

"This is the first year...it's worth commemorating. I'll take you to buy new clothes tomorrow for the first year of junior high school."

boom!

While the two were talking, a cannon sounded in the distance. Xu Qing looked at the children over there and smiled: "That's a firecracker. It will go off if you use a little fire."

"Is it fun?"

"It should be fun...Winter Melon will be afraid of that. I will buy you some small fireworks to play with next time."

After the winter vacation, the community is much more lively than before.

Not only are the children who originally lived here free from their studies, but the young people who have already married and moved out will also bring their children to live here for a while, or leave the children with their grandparents and go away to be happy on their own.

Jiang He watched a group of children playing in the open space, and occasionally felt an unreal trance.

Everything is so peaceful and comfortable.

"Xiaoyan!"

Xu Qing saw Xiaoyan standing not far away with her hands folded, watching boys setting off firecrackers, and raised her hands to greet her.

"Brother Xu!"

Xiaoyan was about to cover her ears when Xu Qing's shout attracted her attention. The movements of her hands slowed down, and then there was a bang of firecrackers, which made her shoulders shrink. She curled her lips and glanced at the boys, covering her ears with one hand.

Run towards Xu Qing.

"You're so old and you're still afraid of firecrackers?" Xu Qing looked at her actions amused.

"Not afraid!" Xiaoyan shook her head vigorously, "It's just that it's very, very noisy!"

"Then look...this is Sister Jiang He."

"Hello sister!"

"Hello."

Jiang He squeezed Xu Qing's hand tightly and blinked at the little girl in front of him who only reached his waist.

The double ponytails are swaying back and forth, looking very lively.

"Aunt Cheng's granddaughter is the Aunt Cheng who always carries a basket."

Xu Qing explained, and Jiang He nodded cryptically. As long as Xu Qing took the initiative to introduce people to her, they probably had some purpose.

In the past six months, she has already discovered that Xu Qing has always been very purposeful. Unless it is very interesting, he rarely does useless things for no reason.

"Is this a winter melon?"

When Xiaoyan greeted Jiang He, his eyes were already attracted to the winter melon, and he recognized it carefully before exclaiming.

The last time I saw him, he was a little skinny guy, but now he has become a big fat guy.

"Yes, it grows much faster than you. It needs to eat more."

"I don't want to become a fat guy!"

Xu Qing joked a little with her, took Jiang He to a bench nearby to sit down and rest, bask in the sun, and handed the rope to Xiaoyan to let her play with the winter melon.

"The neighbors here are very nice, like Aunt Cheng, but she is a bit gossipy. She is very nice and warm-hearted. I used to be locked out of my house when I was a child and couldn't get in. When my parents came back, she would let me come over if she saw her.

Just stay at home and watch TV and do your homework."

Seeing Xiao Yanle happily holding the winter melon and showing off to his friends, he casually talked to Jiang He about old things from the past.

This community was his childhood. He moved to a new home with Xu Wenbin and his wife for a while, and later moved back when he went to college.

"What do you want to do by bringing me to meet her?" Jiang He was curious about this question.

"Don't you think she's cute?" Xu Qing was surprised.

"Very cute..." Jiang He looked at Xiao Yan who was jumping around not far away, and asked doubtfully: "Is it because she is cute?"

"if not?"

Xu Qing asked back, paused and said: "I want you to get to know a few more people, otherwise life will be too monotonous... I found out that you have some misunderstanding about me?"

"Maybe……"

Jiang He raised his head and thought for a moment, not knowing where his inexplicable thoughts came from.

Anyway, I just feel that he will always connect many things together and do them together.

For example, when I held her hand...

Jiang He lowered his head to look at Xu Qing's pig hooves and was playing with her fingers again.

"She comes to stay with Aunt Cheng every winter and summer vacation. Sometimes she comes to me with her winter vacation homework and plays with Winter Melon... Winter vacation homework is students' work, exercises to be done at home."

Xu Qing traced her palm prints with his index finger, as if he was helping her read her palm, and suddenly said, "I seem to be turning into a hand control."

"What?" Jiang He heard another new word.

"It just means I like hands very much."

Jiang He was silent for a moment and looked away, "You already like it."

"Maybe."

Xu Qing didn't explain that he could only like hands because he had too little authority...

If she has enough authority, let her know what it means to be a true disciple.

"ginger……"

Xiaoyan ran over with the cat in her arms and yelled out a word that stuck. Xu Qing helped identify the person: "Sister Jiang He."

"Sister Jiang He!" Xiaoyan called out sweetly, looking at the hands they were holding, "Are you Brother Xu's girlfriend?"

Before Jiang He could answer, Xu Qing asked with a smile: "Do you know what a girlfriend is?"

"Of course I know!"

"what?"

"It's just...it's just..." Xiaoyan opened her eyes wide and couldn't say anything. She didn't know how to explain.

She held it in until her face turned red, and she said loudly: "He is my girl's friend!"

"How cute." Xu Qing smiled at Jiang He and didn't say much on the matter.

Children shouldn't know too much.

It's not good to be led astray.

"If you like winter melon, come and play with it." He touched Xiaoyan's head and said warmly, "You can also play with sister Jiang He."

"good!"
Chapter completed!