But no matter how much Shen Dapeng blamed himself, he had no choice. His heart was already full and there was no room for anyone else. He didn't even have a choice between the two. After thinking about it, he suddenly thought of today.
It's Valentine's Day, why doesn't Cao Mengyuan get a call or a text message?
Shen Dapeng stood up from the bed suddenly. It was dark outside the window. His blurry face was reflected in the window, but his eyes were shining brightly. He picked up the phone on the table and looked at the time. It was 11:57, not yet 12 o'clock.
, it’s still Valentine’s Day.
I found Cao Mengyuan's number in the phone book and dialed it without thinking. But without a second, I hung up in a hurry, my stomach murmuring, "It's so late, she should have gone to bed long ago, right? Will the phone call be noisy?"
Wake her up? But today is Valentine's Day. Maybe she is reserved and shy and doesn't contact her. As a man, I should take the initiative, right?"
"No matter, sending a text message won't disturb her."
Seeing that the time jumped to 11:58, and it would be the next day if he hesitated any longer, Shen Dapeng couldn't wait and couldn't help but send a text message. He quickly sent a text message to Cao Mengyuan, "It didn't snow on Valentine's Day this year. Tonight's lover
There is no holiday without you, but if you are here, even if the sky is filled with snow, I will still feel like spring is warm and the flowers are blooming!"
After the text message was sent, a stone fell from Shen Dapeng's heart. He didn't expect Cao Mengyuan to reply to the message, but at least he had no regrets about Valentine's Day this year and he could sleep peacefully.
As soon as Shen Dapeng lay down and covered himself with quilt, the text message alert on his phone rang. He opened the text message in a panic. He didn't expect that Cao Mengyuan hadn't slept yet, and he didn't expect that Cao Mengyuan would reply so soon. The content was as simple as what he sent.
But it is also full of memories and emotions.
"It's snowing on Valentine's Day in Beijing. It's as beautiful as the heavy snowfall in Qingshu County last year. There is snow but you are not there, but at this moment when I read your text message, I still feel that I am the luckiest person."
Shen Dapeng looked at the time he received the text message. It was 11:59 on February 14, 2003! The next second he was having fun, the time changed to 00:00 on February 15. The time was only a few seconds away, but it had the same meaning.
They have different meanings. Even if it is sad to miss each other and not be able to see each other, it is still enough to put a happy and complete exclamation mark on this year's Valentine's Day, and it is enough to add a strong meaning to the relationship between the two.
In 2003, the day after Valentine's Day was the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.
According to custom, every household will hang up lanterns and eat Yuanxiao. In some more traditional families or families with older people, the elders will also ask the younger generations some lantern riddles. As long as they guess it, they will get big red envelopes.
Yes; the streets will be filled with all kinds of lanterns, and there will be all kinds of lantern riddles that everyone can guess. If you guess the answer, you will get corresponding small gifts. Of course, they are just small gifts.
For everyone, this year's Lantern Festival is no different from usual, but for the people of Qingshu County, it is a memorable first time.
For the first time, the county invested and raised funds from large and medium-sized enterprises in the county to purchase more than 10,000 fireworks, which were scheduled to be set off at 6:30 on the night of the Lantern Festival at Qingshu Square in the county. The entire setting off process will last 20 minutes.
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Qingshu Square is built along the east, west and south rivers of the county, and Qingshu Square is located in the southernmost part of the county. On normal days, some old people practice boxing and swordplay in the morning, and some children urinate in live mud. Fortunately, at this time, the square
Dancing is not very popular, but Qingshu Square is a quiet place for people to walk after dinner.
In 2003, most ordinary families set off some firecrackers during the Chinese New Year. Children could set off some flying monkeys and landmine flowers. Only wealthy families would buy a few boxes of fireworks and set off some fireworks.
It attracted envious and jealous looks from the neighbors. After all, the whirring sounds and colorful flashes were bought with hundreds of dollars.
So when people in the county knew that fireworks would be set off for more than 20 minutes during the Lantern Festival, almost this year's Lantern Festival became the only festival that they were looking forward to after New Year's Eve. Not only people in the county, but also the surrounding towns and villages.
Everyone came by bus to see the brilliance of thousands of fireworks in the night sky.
At around five o'clock in the evening, the long dark night of winter has arrived, but Qingshu Street is still bright and bright. Every shop on both sides of the street is hung with various colored lanterns, and the non-motorized lanes are covered with long colored lights and lantern riddles.
The stalls were full, and the bustling crowd, like believers rushing to worship the Buddha, flowed towards Qingshu Square in the south.
Shen Dapeng, Qu Yina, Mark, Jason, Sun Dapaozi, Li Zeyu, Lin Xiaoxiao, and Tang Wei all moved slowly in the direction of the crowd, sometimes guessing the lantern riddles on the roadside, and sometimes playing tricks on a few small items.
Some interesting gadgets sold at the stall.
"There are...too many people." Li Zeyu stood on a rock and looked ahead. He only saw a huge crowd of people, but no energy.
"There are indeed quite a few. I guess people from the surrounding towns are here."
Shen Dapeng was born and raised in Qingshu County, and has lived for almost 20 years. However, he has never seen so many people in the county since he was a child, and he never imagined that so many people participate in the same event.
"Is this so much? When we set off fireworks on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year in Panyun City, there are many more people than this."
Tang Wei held a bundle of glow sticks he bought from nowhere and distributed them to everyone one by one. "Everyone has taken the glow sticks. If they get lost, just shake them above your head. Our code is, three circles to the left."
Three circles to the right..."
"My neck is twisted and my butt is twisted." Speaking of butt, Shen Dapeng did not forget to kick Tang Wei's butt.
"Hey, Brother Peng, so many people are watching, and you don't give me any face. If you get lost, don't look for us! Why did Wang Xueying leave on such a grand day tonight? Just leave.
, didn’t even say hello.”
"..." Shen Dapeng didn't reply, his smile gradually hardened to the point of embarrassment.
"Hey, maybe there is a place to set off fireworks in Jinghu City. It is a 'city' after all, and it must be more grand and grand than in our county. Isn't it normal for Xueying to go back?"
Li Zeyu didn't know what happened between Shen Dapeng and Wang Xueying last night, but he could guess it by looking at Shen Dapeng's embarrassed expression. It was definitely not a wonderful experience.
"I feel that 10,000 fireworks are beautiful enough. We have never seen them in the United States. They are too extravagant."
Jason and Mark were gearing up in anticipation, staring at the front of the crowd. It was not that they had no conditions in the United States, but they did not have the custom of setting off fireworks. If they had not been waiting to see the fireworks today, they would have taken the train back to the capital during the day.
Already.
"Okay, no matter how hard you work, hurry up and squeeze forward. You won't be able to find the 'commanding heights' for a while. You can't see anything, you can only smell it."