Unknowingly, Christmas is approaching. This is the Christmas of 2010. The streets of Beijing are full of Christmas trees decorated with small lights and portraits of reindeer. Red Christmas hats can be seen everywhere. In front of every shopping mall, there are gifts from Santa Claus for children.
, every restaurant is preparing Christmas dinner, boys and girls holding hands, walking through the streets, the fragrance of the roses in the girls' hands wafts far and wide.
No. 141 Qianmen West Street, Beijing South Catholic Church, a blue-grey building, is known as "the oldest Catholic church in Chinese history". It was built by Matteo Ricci, a Western missionary during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and it is hundreds of years old.
years.
Ye Xuanyi sat on the roof of the church, listening to the clear and holy singing of the choir girls in the church, and drank the beer in his hand.
Some time has passed since the underground dragon slaying, and they also reported the situation to the college. The college sent people from the executive department to recover the dragon bone cross, and then gave the dragon slaying team a long vacation, saying that the wounded should be treated and recovered.
After that, they can have fun in China. In short, they are not required to go back to class, which is a great blessing for Ye Xuan and the others who are tired of dealing with classes, so they can play in Beijing day and night.
After today, they will return to the academy and start classes again, and several of them can't help but feel a little heavy.
The Manchu-Han banquet promised by senior brother had already been finished on Double Eleven. The two dragon-slaying team members plus Ye Xuan, a total of seven people, ate together for two days before finishing the dishes.
Christmas Eve singing was being held in the church, and there was also Zhao Menghua who attended the gospel class. He became a religious man after being hypnotized by Masashi Toyama to wash away his memory, and became a devout Catholic. He was still in this gospel class.
outstanding representative.
And today he will propose to Chen Wenwen, and that idiot Lu Mingfei is also here, probably because he wants to say goodbye to his youth completely!
Even that guy Fingel came all the way to participate. According to him, there is a free dinner here tonight, and Fingel has never tasted the food of the Catholic Church.
This was indeed a very loser-dog style speech. Ye Xuan ignored them and went to buy a few bottles of beer nearby and climbed up to the roof of the church. He looked at the sun that was gradually setting in the west and felt the inexplicable loss.
Started drinking.
The singing in the church slowly died down and the singing was over. The pastor asked Zhao Menghua, the representative of the gospel class, to come to the stage to speak.
Zhao Menghua is wearing black and white clothes with a cross pattern on his collar. He has a modest smile and a gentle expression. He is not much different from the Zhao Menghua of a year ago.
Sure enough, people will change after experiencing life and death! Although Zhao Menghua no longer remembers that he has experienced life and death.
Ye Xuan listened to Zhao Menghua's speech with the help of her hearing, which had become extremely good at some point. She sighed in her heart that this guy finally knew that Chen Wenwen was the one he was looking for. After being a scumbag for so long, he finally wanted to marry his first love.
Although it is a bit unfair to Liu Miaomiao, Chen Wenwen came first after all.
After Zhao Menghua finished speaking, a guy named Luo Siwei, who appeared to be a devout pastor but was secretly the boss of a gaming guild, also came on stage and said something from the Gospel of John, which made everyone burst into applause.
The applause fell, and today's dinner began.
The nuns in the church put the freshly baked bread and red wine on the plates, and other students in the gospel class passed it to the people around them in an orderly manner. Zhao Menghua and Chen Wenwen in the crowd raised their glasses and looked at each other and smiled.
Ye Xuan on the roof chuckled, "Lovers will eventually get married!"
Drink all the beer in one gulp.
Lu Mingfei was sitting in a corner of the church where there were not many people, and next to him was Fingel. Both of them had dinner food and red wine in front of them, while Fingel was chatting nonsense while eating.
Lu Mingfei was upset when he heard this. He rolled his eyes at him, turned around and walked out.
He stood under the brick door of the church. In front of him was the bustling street with crowds of people, and the cold air was filled with an indescribable smell.
He entered the crowd and passed by the men and women passing by. He stood in the crowd, with the setting sun falling behind him and the dark yellow sunlight shining down, covering everything with a golden veil of dusk.
Lu Mingfei opened the iPhone given by the little devil Lu Mingze and saw that on the bronze roulette wheel, only one-half of the life scale was left.
He looked at the scale and couldn't help but be stunned. He just stood in the crowd. All the people passing by walked their own way as if they didn't see him, leaving him alone in the wind.
Ye Xuan opened another bottle of beer on the roof and sipped it one after another. The setting sun cast a long shadow behind him. His appearance was the same as his, but he didn't know if his mood was the same.
He looked at the stunned Lu Mingfei in the crowd on the street, wondering if he should comfort him, but then he saw Fingel coming out of the church, so he calmed down and continued drinking.
At this time, senior brother and junior sister should be preparing dinner at home! Do you want to have a meal?
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In an old community hidden behind high-rise buildings, the sycamore trees have already lost all their leaves, just like the bent branches of a dead person cutting the sunlight into pieces.
Building No. 31, with its red brick exterior, has an indescribable sense of age. There are only a few incandescent lamps illuminating the corridors, and the walls are covered with small advertisements with Chinese characteristics, such as "Unblock sewers" and "Houses".
"For rent", "He spends a lot of money looking for a child".
Room 201, Unit 15, this is the place where Xia Mi has lived since she was a child, and it is also the place where all her memories in this life begin.
When I opened the door, the setting sun rushed in my face, and the fading sunlight filled the house, making me feel like I was in a legendary dusk world.
Facing the door is a huge floor-to-ceiling window, and the huge sunset slowly sets outside, dyeing everything golden.
The whole room is empty, with only a bed in the center, a dusty chest of drawers in the corner, and a gas stove and an old-fashioned double-door refrigerator in the other corner. These are the only pieces of furniture in the large room, which give people a sense of comfort.
A feeling of emptiness and loneliness.
At this time, the boy and the girl were sitting together on the edge of the bed, facing the sunset, letting the cold sunset hit their faces. Their expressions were calm and peaceful, looking at the slowly setting sun, without saying a word, and remained silent.
Such a quiet and peaceful atmosphere.
Slowly, the boy took the girl's hand. The girl trembled, but did not refuse. She allowed the boy to hold her hand tightly, and she quietly exerted her strength. Both of them held each other's hands hard, for fear of being far away.
Go away from the other party.
The setting sun finally kisses the earth, and the world falls into darkness. The city lights rise, and the colorful neon lights dye the city transparent. In this old house outside the high-rise building, the light of incandescent lamps dispels the darkness and loneliness, and boys and girls
They were walking around the room, making one meal after another. Today was Christmas Eve, and they wanted to eat richly.
"Ding dong~"
When the doorbell rang, the boy and the girl looked at each other with a tacit understanding, and the boy immediately moved forward to open the door.
The door was opened, and it was a handsome and handsome boy. When he saw the boy coming to open the door, he smiled and called "Senior Brother". Two more heads popped up from behind, with the same smile of eating and drinking, and one called "Senior Brother"
, one is called "junior brother".
The boy who opened the door slightly raised the corners of his mouth, as if he was smiling, but it passed quickly. He took a few steps back to let them enter the house.
Several people were carrying things called Christmas gifts in large and small packages, and after saying hello to the girl, they ran to help cook while yelling.
The boy who entered the door at the beginning chuckled and took out a few bottles of Erguotou and placed them on the newly purchased dining table, deciding to get his senior brother drunk tonight.
The male owner of the room twitched his lips slightly. It's not that he doesn't drink, it's just that even their mixed race cannot handle so much of this specialty Erguotou.
But seeing the smiles on their faces, the boy suppressed his words. Just as he was about to go help together, he heard the doorbell ring again.
"Ding dong ~ ding dong ~"
Opening the door, there was a pair of handsome men and beautiful women. The man was tall and handsome, with blond hair as dazzling as gold. The girl had long dark red hair, and the four-leaf clover earrings on her ears were spinning. With the smile on her face, she looked like a little witch.
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The two of them walked in with smiles and put down the gifts they had brought. They were slightly startled when they saw the room full of people, and then smiled and said hello.
The dinner started soon. Although it was not as luxurious as the upper class, it was extremely cherishable for everyone. The warmth and peace were worth remembering by each of them.
The boys and girls were laughing and eating the food on the table. The night outside gradually fell silent, but this place was like the last fireworks in the world, warm and healing.
Many years later, they will all remember that on Christmas Eve in 2010, they spent an unforgettable night in an old house in the capital of a country where the economy was booming.
It's dark at night, and a bright moon rises from the horizon, casting thousands of silver gauze to protect the sleeping people with good dreams.