Occasionally being extravagant is also an important manifestation of the sense of ritual in life.
Thinking about it, why do I feel that the New Year’s Eve is no longer in the mood? Let’s not talk about anything else. The food on this New Year’s Eve dinner is already a dish that I am tired of eating every day. Naturally, I have less expectations for the New Year’s Eve dinner.
feel.
In order to celebrate my sister's regular job, I will not cook tonight and order pizza.
When I got home from work, Lin Lu ordered a crispy crayfish and tender chicken pizza, plus an Orleans chicken leg, a tender chicken nugget, and two Cokes.
By the time Li Xingruo came over after taking a shower, the pizza had almost been delivered.
Excluding sleeping time, after June, Li Xingruo spent more than twice as much time at his house as he did at hers. Who knows that his living room is big, the sofa is soft, and there is air conditioning.
"Sister Xingruo, I solemnly suggest that you move here and live with me." Lin Lu said while eating Orleans chicken legs.
"Why." Li Xingruo cut the pizza with a knife, and the fragrant smell made her index fingers move.
There's drama!
In the past, when she suggested something like this, her sister would reject it without hesitation. Why would she ask him a question like this? She just wanted her brother to help her find a reason.
Lin Lu immediately became energetic and ordered only one portion of Orleans Chicken Leg. He wore gloves and tore off a piece of chicken leg meat and fed it to his sister's mouth.
The sister who had just taken a bath, her lips were as delicate as the petals peeled from the bud. She opened her mouth slightly, slurped the chicken drumstick Lin Lu fed to her mouth, and ate it. After being smeared with oil, her lips were pink and tender.
It makes people want to taste it even more.
"Save money!"
Lin Lu immediately caught his sister's pain points and continued: "Sister Xingruo, don't you plan to save money?"
"I've been saving money."
"That's right. As long as Sister Xingruo comes to live with me, I will only charge you a thousand yuan per month for rent, including water and electricity bills. Sister Xingruo only needs to cook for me every day and help me by the way.
Just hang out the laundry and do housework!”
"I do not want."
Li Xingruo picked up a piece of pizza and blocked Lin Lu's mouth, preventing him from asking any more questions.
"Okay, then if Sister Xingruo wants to move here to live with me, Sister Xingruo will tell me herself, and I won't ask anymore." Lin Lu said vaguely while eating pizza.
"You're kidding, why would my sister mention such a thing? Do you think you are as unafraid as you?"
Li Xingruo also ate a piece. It was very fragrant and full of ingredients. The taste of barbecue sauce was refreshing.
What a stupid brother, he doesn't even know how to keep a distance. Although the two siblings are not very clean now, it's okay to play with their hands and hug each other. What if they live together and he accidentally coaxes them into bed.
My reserved sister won’t be able to do anything to you about this kind of thing!
Thinking about it this way, there is no excuse for living together.
The siblings and the cat were sitting on the soft sofa together, happily eating pizza, when Li Xingruo received a WeChat call from the mobile phone placed on the table.
"Sister Xingruo, your mother called you."
"Shh, don't make a sound."
Li Xingruo picked up the phone and answered the call.
This was the first time that Lin Lu saw his sister talking to his aunt on the phone. He secretly sat closer to Li Xingruo, hoping to eavesdrop on what his aunt would say to her.
"Hello? Mom~"
Because Lin Lu was by her side, the elder sister didn't act coquettishly with her mother, otherwise the tone of her "mom" would have to be softened two more degrees.
"Ruoruo, have you eaten?"
"You are eating, where are you?"
"Eat, eat, are you at home?"
Li Xingruo looked at Lin Lu's house, then at him beside him, and replied a little guiltily: "Well..."
Lin Lu overheard this and was angry and funny. He lip-synced and said, 'Sister Xingruo, you lied!'
Li Xingruo pursed his lips and glared at him fiercely, preventing him from making any sound.
"I thought you and your colleagues went out to eat. Didn't you become a regular employee today? Didn't you invite your colleagues to a meal?"
"No, I'll treat them to milk tea."
Speaking of milk tea, Li Xingruo felt a little thirsty. She held the phone in one hand and stretched out her other hand towards Lin Lu. She moved her palm to ask him to help take off her greasy gloves.
The considerate brother was very smart and understood immediately. He took off his sister's gloves, revealing her white and tender little hands.
While talking to his mother, Li Xingruo pointed to the Coke in Lin Lu's hand.
Lin Lu was stunned.
He put down the Coke, then put his hand on his sister's palm and held her back.
Li Xingruo's eyes widened, his pretty face turned slightly red, and he turned to look at him in disbelief.
Stupid brother! I want a Coke! Not a pimp!
Li Xingruo gave him an annoyed look and took her little hand out of his palm.
Not to mention, the feeling of being held by his hand while talking to my mother on the phone is really exciting.
She took the Coke herself and stopped Lin Lu from eavesdropping on the phone. She got up and opened the balcony door and walked outside.
"...Ruoruo, Ruoruo?"
"Hey, what's wrong, Mom?"
"What are you doing? Mom didn't even hear what she was saying to you."
"Ah? I, I'm looking for something..."
"What are you looking for? Listen to mom, finding a boyfriend is the real thing..."
I don’t know when my mother learned the talent. In the end, any topic will turn to the matter of finding a partner.
She closed the balcony door and looked at Lin Lu, who was playing with the little fat cat and waiting for her to finish the phone call before eating pizza together.
Thinking that her colleagues now knew that Lin Lu was her boyfriend, Li Xingruo stopped arguing with her mother this time. Her big eyes rolled around. She held the phone and lowered her voice and said:
"I-I have someone I like."
Chen Yingping on the other end of the phone was also stunned.
"What? What did you just say?"
"I said, I have someone I like!"
"It's true. You didn't lie to your mother. She's not urging you. Of course, if you have someone you like, your mother will be happier..."
"Really, really!"
Li Xingruo looked at the forest road inside through the balcony door. It was the first time in his life that he told his mother that he had someone he liked. As soon as he said this, he didn't know whether it was because he had just come out of the air-conditioned room or something.
She suddenly felt her face getting hot.
"The person you like is a man, right?"
"...What! It must be a boy! Otherwise, it's a girl? Mom, what short videos do you watch all day long?"
"Yes, that's good. Yes, that's good."
Chen Yingping on the other end of the phone breathed a sigh of relief: "Other people's daughters are in love openly and secretly, but you are the only one who keeps quiet. Mom thought you liked girls."
"...Your daughter is a normal person."
"What does the young man look like?"
"He is 1.83 meters tall, has good facial features and is very handsome."
"Where are you from?"
"Sunan."
"Where did you graduate?"
This problem stumps my daughter, she can’t be said to have just graduated from high school!
"...Su Da."
"Where do you work?"
"...just downstairs from my company."
"What kind of work do you do?"
"...He is a designer and a painter!"
"What about the salary? What about your family conditions? Do you have a good personality? How many people are there in your family?"
"...Mom, are you checking your household registration?"
"Then, your mother, I can't help you keep an eye on the man our dear girl likes?"
"He, he's pretty good, just don't worry."
After being described by her daughter, Chen Yingping on the other end of the phone became excited: "Then you can take him home to see him another day!"
Li Xingruo was startled, and quickly explained with a blushing face: "What's going on here? I, I just like him, but we're not together, so how can I take him back?"
"... Then it's okay. You've been talking to mom for a long time, and you haven't even held her hand or kissed her on the mouth, right?"
"No, no, oh mom, can you be more tactful? It'll make people feel embarrassed."
"What's there to be ashamed of? When we're in love, if a boyfriend and girlfriend don't hold hands or kiss, then what's the point of talking about it? Forget it, virgin buddies."
"That will happen in the future. Didn't I say that we don't have that kind of relationship yet!"
"Then what's your relationship now?"
"Sisters and sisters..."
"What? This guy is younger than you?"
"It's very, very normal!"
"How much younger are you?"
"Four...is about one year old."
"Eleven years old??"
"One year old!"
Li Xingruo didn't dare to say that number, because he was afraid that his mother's heart wouldn't be able to bear it. He was afraid that even the parents of a daughter who had a daughter officially working, but she was talking to a newly graduated high school student, her heart wouldn't be able to bear it...
"It's one year old, so it doesn't matter."
Hearing his mother's relaxed tone, Li Xingruo became arrogant and said hesitantly: "I, I remembered wrong, I think I was two years old..."
"Oh, he's two years old. It doesn't matter. Just be mature and responsible. Oh no, didn't you just say that he was at work? Why is he two years younger than you?"
"He's still in college..."
"ha?"
"But! But he is very capable! Although he is still studying, he can make money by himself! Although it is a part-time job, his salary is higher than mine!"
"Oh...then what is his character like? Character is the most important thing. Is he responsible? Is he responsible? Is he carefree?"
"No, no, no! He is very dedicated! He has never been in love like me! Even though he is younger than me, he is very responsible and responsible! He is neither arrogant nor impetuous, and is very motivated.
Heart!"
"Then you can give it a try. Anyway, the difference of two years is not much."
Hearing his mother's approval, Li Xingruo became a little more arrogant and said hesitantly: "I... I seem to have misremembered that one. It seems to be three, three years old?"
"...Why are you bargaining with mom?! Don't you know how old the difference is?"
"Oh! I remembered, it's two years old! Two years old!"
Seeing that his mother's attitude seemed to be hesitant, Li Xingruo didn't dare to test it anymore. Anyway, let's try to fool him first, or wait a few years before confessing, wouldn't it be the same thing?
Just like she herself needs to wait for Lin Lu to grow up, she must give her mother a psychological buffer space...
"You better be!"
"Of course it is. I don't know how old it is. Mom, don't worry, he is really nice. Besides..."
"What more?"
"Besides, I'm not dating him. Even if the age difference is four... five, six, or seven years, it doesn't matter."
"...It can't be that we are really seven years apart. Mom is not joking with you. If it is really seven years old, Mom won't agree. Isn't this a big deal?"
"How can it be!"
"You really like her? What are you trying to do?"
"..."
His mother asked so seriously that even though his mother was not around, Li Xingruo couldn't help but blush, lowering his head and looking at his twirling fingers in a daze.
I can't picture anything, but I can picture the down-to-earth warmth and peace of mind that he brings, that unique preference.
She suddenly remembered a line from "Wulin Gaiden". Once you fall in love with someone, you want nothing more. As long as you can see him every day, you feel very lucky. Life is short, and it is fleeting, but this kind of mood
It is very long, like mountains and rivers, stretching endlessly.
Li Xingruo didn't explain much to his mother, he just said hesitantly:
"Anyway, I already have someone I like now, so you don't have to rush me anymore. Wait until I...get him and bring him home to show you!"
"How long will it take?"
I'm also waiting for him to grow up. How can he be so good at nineteen years old? Wow...
"...Soon, very soon! Just don't worry!"
"You really didn't lie to me, mom."
"No!"
"Then when will you bring him back to show me and your dad?"
"Three years...! Within three years! I will definitely take him back to Liangxi!"
"Three...years?!"
"..."
"Ruoruo, you didn't make random nonsense about someone to fool mom, did you? Mom isn't urging you. If you don't like it, mom just won't mention it in the future."
"really!"
"Then you can send a photo of him to Mom later."
"……good."
"Okay, then you should take better care of yourself and invite that boy to dinner more often. Our Ruoruo cooks are so good, Mom doesn't believe you can't handle him."
"I know, I know, my phone is out of gas, bye mom!"
"Hey, are you going back to Liangxi next month?"
"There is no holiday in July."
"What about August?"
"It's not fake either."
"What about the weekend?"
"I don't want to go back on the weekend... just wait for the Mid-Autumn Festival! I'll go back during the Mid-Autumn Festival!"
"...I haven't come back in June, I haven't come back in July, and I won't come back in August. Then during the Mid-Autumn Festival, you'd better bring the young man you mentioned back with you!"
"..."
After hanging up the phone, Li Xingruo put her hands behind her back, and the evening breeze blew her hair. She looked at the night sky in the distance and couldn't help but feel that life is not easy. Her sister sighed.
After a while, after the expression on her face softened, she opened the balcony door with a solemn expression.
"Sister Xingruo, are you done with the phone call? Let's continue eating pizza!"
"..."
Li Xingruo didn't answer his words, but just walked over with an expressionless face and empty eyes.
Lin Lu was stunned for a moment, thinking that he had just held his sister's hand and made her angry now.
Before he could apologize, he saw his sister running to the sofa, getting out of a standard taxi, and bowing to Lin Lu in a confession and petition gesture.
"...?!"
"Sister, why are you doing such a big gift? You can't do it! Get back together quickly!"