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◎Through the clouds and rain. ◎

After New Year’s Day, Chen Zui became busy again. Busy doing year-end summary and accompanying Qiao Sen to various activities.

This is her way of numbing herself and forgetting important holidays with her busyness.

Every year as the Spring Festival approaches, she feels a little overwhelmed.

On the last weekend before the Chinese New Year, Liang Yuwei asked Chen Zui: "Where will you go back during the Chinese New Year?"

Chen Zui was reading a book. He was stunned for a moment and said lightly: "I should spend it by myself."

Since she started working, she I never spent the New Year with my parents again. I would only go to my parents' house to sit on New Year's Eve, and then return to my rental house to spend time alone amidst the sounds of fireworks and firecrackers.

"Why didn't you ask me?" Liang Yuwei asked.

Chen best knows that Liang Yuwei's family has family dinners on the most important holidays, and the whole family must be together.

She spends her normal days with Liang Yuwei, so she has no reason for him to come and accompany her during the Chinese New Year.

Chen Zui smiled and said, "What about you?"

Liang Yuwei shook his head and said, "It hasn't been decided yet. My parents want to go back to their hometown for the New Year. My brother and I want to bring my grandparents here to live for a while."

"Yes. "Chen Zui nodded, "Just spend time with your family."

Liang Yuwei nodded thoughtfully and said nothing more.

The art museum had an early holiday on New Year's Eve. Chen Zui did a general cleaning, bought couplets, and went to the supermarket to buy some ingredients. He planned to go out as little as possible during the New Year.

Liang Yuwei returned to his hometown with his family to celebrate the New Year with everyone.

On New Year's Eve, it snowed for the first time in Jingjiang. Starting from noon, the weather became as gloomy as night.

Chen Zui went to Li Qingyun's house at noon, had lunch at Li Qingyun's house, and then rushed to Chen Shengping's house.

In the past few years, she had lived like this, meeting and greeting her parents, having a meal, bringing gifts to her younger siblings, and then returning to her little home.

When we arrived at Chen Shengping's house, Aunt Wu was rolling out dumpling wrappers in the kitchen. Chen Shengping was making dumplings on the dining table. Xingxing acted as a porter, transporting the dumpling wrappers one trip at a time.

Chen Zui looked at this warm scene of a family of three and didn't even feel awkward.

When she came here before, she was always restless.

After dinner, it was already dark.

Chen Shengping did not stay with her, nor did he ask her when she would leave.

Chen Zui played with the stars for a while, then picked up his coat and took the initiative to say goodbye.

She no longer resented her parents for not taking the initiative to stay. She regarded all these as check-in tasks, and she became much more relaxed psychologically.

She thought that it was probably because Liang Yuwei gave her enough love that she could let go of all this.

While eating, some of her scars were exposed in her bottoming shirt. Although Chen Shengping and Aunt Wu didn't speak, their eyes always glanced here from time to time.

When she left, Xingxing held her legs reluctantly, unwilling to let her go.

Chen Zu comforted her and said he would play with her when he came back in a while.

"Happy New Year, Xingxing."

"Happy New Year." Xingxing said reluctantly, and then covered Chen Zui's ear, "Sister Mermaid."

Chen Zui smiled and kissed Xingxing's cheek.

-The

snow is still falling.

The snow accumulated on the ground reflected the sky brightly, and there was a rustling sound when you stepped on it.

Chen felt that his feet felt comfortable and walked all the way back home.

When we arrived at the community, it was already close to eight o'clock in the evening.

The number of pedestrians on the road began to decrease, and the intermittent sound of cannon fire came from unknown places in the distance.

There are several children in the community putting fairy wands in the yard.

Seeing Chen Zui passing by alone, they generously gave her one and helped her light it.

The golden sparkle of the fairy wand fell into her pupils, illuminating her eyes.

The fairy wand burned out, and the children were urged by their parents to go home and watch the Spring Festival Gala.

Several children gave the remaining fairy wands and bees to Chen Zui.

The moment of family fun arrived, and she was left alone for a while.

As she walked back, she sent Happy New Year to her friends.

Halfway through the message, the phone suddenly vibrated.

Shen Miao initiated a video call in the group.

Chen Zui picked up and several people started chatting, and a sense of familiarity immediately hit their faces.

"Happy New Year, sisters!" Shen Miao shouted.

None of them were in the city. Ding Yi was also on vacation on the island with his family, while Li Songyi returned to his hometown in the countryside with his family.

Seeing that Chen Zui's background was outdoors, they were all concerned about where she was.

Chen Zui turned the camera over and showed them the fairy wand in her hand.

"I'll be back in the third grade of junior high school, and I'll find you then." Li Songyi said.

Shen Miao also nodded: "I'll be back on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, so will I!"

Chen Zui smiled and said, "Okay, I'll prepare delicious food for you then."

Chen Zui looked at the cute faces on the screen.

Although she still spent this year alone, at this moment, she really felt happy.

"Happy New Year, I love you so much." Chen Zu couldn't help but tell them.

-Chen

Zui returned home and was isolated from the hustle and bustle outside.

You can see the gorgeous fireworks through the window, but they have nothing to do with her.

Chen Zui turned on the TV for background sound and leaned on the sofa alone.

She took out her phone and took a look.

In WeChat, Liang Yuwei's profile picture was pinned to the top, and there was no movement.

Chen missed him the most.

We have only been apart for a few days, but just because of this special moment, I miss him more than usual.

She didn't even realize that in just a few minutes, she took a look at the phone and put it back, looked at it again, and put it back again.

He was probably having New Year's Eve dinner with his family.

Probably because he had been running around all day, Chen Zui was tired after eleven o'clock.

She turned off the TV, washed herself, and then lay down on the bed.

As it approaches midnight, the sound of firecrackers outside becomes more frequent, one after another, lighting up the night sky.

Liang Yuwei didn't send any message.

Chen Zui held the phone in his hands, almost staring through the screen.

Drowsiness hammered her will, but she refused to sleep.

I did a lot of things on this day, but the most important thing didn’t wait.

She guessed that Liang Yuwei would have to wait until twelve o'clock to send her a happy New Year.

Finally, she couldn't hold it anymore and sent him a message: What are you doing?

Liang Yuwei did not reply.

After a while, she sent another question mark.

The phone remains quiet.

More than ten minutes later, Liang Yuwei made a call.

"Hello." She answered the phone, making her voice sound extremely calm.

"What are you doing?" Liang Yuwei asked.

Chen was most reluctant to answer. She obviously asked the question first and had not received a reply from him yet.

Liang Yuwei asked again: "Did you have dinner with your family tonight?"

"Yeah."

"What did you eat?"

"Dumplings and some cold dishes."

"Where are you now?"

"Where else, at home." Chen Zui's tone was a little impatient.

"Home alone?"

"That's right."

"Are you afraid of being alone?"

"What's there to be afraid of? The door is locked, and there are so many firecrackers outside to accompany me."

Liang Yuwei asked her no more questions. The two fell into silence.

Chen Zui suddenly felt that her attitude towards Liang Yuwei was a little too bad.

Maybe he just had dinner with his family and didn't see his cell phone.

Then she thought again, he didn't send her a message all day today, so she should be angry with him.

Just when her thoughts were flying, Liang Yuwei continued: "I miss you." Chen

Zui held the phone tightly and said, "I don't know how to send me a message."

Liang Yuwei smiled. "I want to wait until twelve o'clock to post."

"Okay..." Chen lowered his head and picked his hands.

"Do you miss me?" Liang Yuwei asked her.

"No."

"Really not?"

Chen Zui bit his lip and said nothing.

Liang Yuwei chuckled twice: "You have no conscience."

Chen Zu couldn't help but curled his lips, you have a conscience, just disappear all day long on New Year's Eve.

She was angry and said, "Don't think about it, don't think about it..."

Liang Yuwei said in a relaxed tone, "Why do I think you miss me so much?"

Chen Zui still didn't speak.

Liang Yuwei stopped teasing her and said, "Just open the door if you want."

Hearing this, Chen almost dropped his cell phone to the ground.

She quickly got up, went to the door, lay on the peephole and looked out.

Sure enough, there was someone standing in the corridor.

"Is it you? Are you at the door?" Her voice was trembling, she couldn't believe it.

"Yeah." Liang Yuwei's voice sounded like a pearl, revealing a sexy hoarseness.

Chen Zui opened the door, and Liang Yuwei was leaning against the door, with the phone still on his ear, and the cold air on his body hit his face.

Exhaustion was written on his face.

Chen Zui quickly grabbed his arm, let him in, and asked incredulously: "Didn't you go back to your hometown?"

Liang Yuwei did not answer her question, but asked her what time it was.

She looked at her phone, twenty-three fifty-eight.

The firecrackers and fireworks outside suddenly reached the peak of excitement.

Liang Yuwei reached out and clasped the back of her head and kissed her.

His lips and tongue were cold, but her heart was filled with warmth. He wantonly grabbed her breath and swept away her sleepiness.

After a two-minute kiss, Liang Yuwei let go of her mouth and kissed her forehead: "Happy New Year, baby."

-

Chen was stunned.

She follows him and asks him why he is here.

"Didn't you go back to your hometown?"

"Yes." Liang Yuwei nodded and went into the bedroom to change into pajamas. "After dinner with the old man, I drove back."

Her parents were going back to their hometown for the New Year, so Liang Yuwei Maybe I haven’t seen my grandparents for a long time.

He went back early to stay with the old man for a few days. After the New Year's Eve dinner, he hurried back.

Chen Zui covered his mouth: "Did you drive back alone?"

Liang Yuwei nodded: "Yeah."

"How long did it take?"

"More than three hours."

No wonder he never sent her a message or replied to her. news.

"Your family won't think..." Chen Zui was a little worried.

"I told them that I want to spend the New Year with my girlfriend." Liang Yuwei couldn't help but pinch her chin and kissed her again, "Don't worry, they didn't say anything."

Liang Yuwei resumed his position. Later, Chen Zui went to HKUST several times for work, and met Lin Han once.

Lin Han didn't say anything too harsh to her, nor was he overly enthusiastic.

Liang Yuwei wanted to accompany Chen Zui during the New Year, but Lin Han didn't say anything, which was regarded as acquiescence in the love relationship between Liang Yuwei and Chen Zui.

"Don't do this again." Chen Zui punched him gently, "It's so dangerous to drive on New Year's Eve."

"I'm driving steadily."

"Then you should tell me in advance."

"I want to give you a surprise. ." He looked at her deeply, his voice calm.

He did give her a big surprise.

"There are a lot of specialties and food in the trunk, but I only took part of it." Liang Yuwei went to the entrance to carry a few bags, "I want to see you so much."

Chen Zui blushed, hooked his neck, and used his face hard Rubbing the crook of his neck: "Me too."

He held her hair in his mouth and hugged her tightly: "I will spend it with you every year from now on."

-

The sixth day of the Lunar New Year is Liang Yuwei's birthday.

Chen Zui said that he would celebrate his birthday, but Liang Yuwei said that it would be a celebration as long as she was here.

So just after midnight, he held her down and "celebrated" twice.

At the end of the fight, the two of them were sweating profusely, and he forced her to say the words "Happy Birthday".

For his birthday, she exhausted all her energy.

Chen Zui was carried to the bathroom by him while he was half asleep. Before he fell asleep, he heard him say that this was his happiest birthday.

With a bang, she fell into dreamland.

Early the next morning, Chen Zui got up in a daze and found that the people around him had already gotten up.

Liang Yuwei was not at home, so he sent her a message saying that he had gone out beforehand and had breakfast in the kitchen.

Chen Zu didn't pay much attention. He got up, had breakfast, and started decorating his home.

She had bought birthday decorations a long time ago, and had been hiding them under a pile of things on the TV cabinet for fear of being discovered by Liang Yuwei.

Chen Zuo was busy all day long, filling up balloons, posting messages, and going out to order cakes, and his back ached.

Liang Yuwei did not come back until dark. Chen Zui got tired of waiting alone and fell asleep on the sofa.

When Liang Yuwei arrived home, Chen Zui was still asleep on the sofa. The house was dark, with only a small string of lights flickering.

When he saw the words "Happy birthday" on the wall, he couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips.

He took off his coat and planned to carry Chen Zui back to the bedroom.

Chen Zui was not sleeping deeply. When he heard the noise, he woke up first.

"You're back." She rubbed her sleepy eyes, "Happy birthday."

"Thank you." Liang Yuwei kissed the corner of her lips.

She couldn't help but yawned: "What did you do?"

"Go to the hospital."

"What's wrong with you?" Chen Zui looked at him up and down.

"It's not me, I'm going to help Song Shiwei."

"Song Shiwei? Isn't she in Japan?"

Liang Yuwei nodded and said, "Her father fell down a few days ago and was hospitalized with a comminuted fracture. She didn't tell anyone. I just called Zhou Mo this morning and asked him to go to the hospital for help. "

Is it serious? Should we go and check it out?"

Liang Yuwei told her not to worry, "I'm here to help." It was a busy day, so Song Shiwei's mother went home to rest for a long time. "

Chen Zui asked with concern: "Can Song Shiwei come back?"

"She will be back in a few days,"

Liang Yuwei said. Song Shiwei was supposed to be back one month after the Spring Festival . I will be back soon. I have explained the situation to the company in the past few days and applied to return home early.

"There was no direct flight for her when she came back, so she booked a flight to Shanghai first," Liang Yuwei said.

"Where's Zhou Mo?"

"Zhou Mo flew directly to Shanghai this morning to pick her up." Liang Yuwei explained, "She may be transferred back from the headquarters in the future, and she still has some things to pack at home in Shanghai."

Chen Zuo all He nodded thoughtfully and asked, "Zhou Mo likes Song Shiwei, why didn't he tell her?"

"He didn't dare." Liang Yuwei chuckled.

"I thought Zhou Mo was a very open person with countless girlfriends."

"Zhou Mo would be at a loss when facing people he really cares about." Liang Yuwei raised his eyebrows, "Who are you listening to? ? Shen Miao?"

Chen Zui denied it, but Liang Yuwei didn't believe it.

"What did Shen Miao say about me?"

"You are a good person, and anyone who misses you is a fool." Chen Zui said deliberately.

Unexpectedly, Liang Yuwei nodded in agreement: "She is objective and fair."

Chen couldn't help but hit him: "Narcissist."

He held her hand in his hand, and after a while he continued: "Then you are so in love with him."

Chen Zui snorted, took out the birthday hat from the corner of the sofa and put it on him, and then went to the refrigerator to bring out the cake.

"Birthday rituals are indispensable," she said.

She lit the candles and sang happy birthday to him softly.

"Make a wish quickly." She smiled and covered his eyes.

He closed his eyes at her urging, and two seconds later said, "I've made a wish."

"So soon?" Chen was most surprised, "You're perfunctory with me, right?"

This is Thoughts that lingered in his mind every day.

Over and over again, many times, he didn't need any preparation.

"No, how could it be."

Chen didn't believe it the most: "Then tell me, what wish did you make?"

"It won't work if you say it."

I hope that I can spend every birthday and every day with you in the future. .

Liang Yuwei finished blowing out the candles and stretched out his hand towards Chen Zui.

Chen Zui pretended to be stupid: "What are you doing?"

"Don't tell me you didn't prepare any gifts."

"How can you ask for a gift from someone like this?" Even so, she still asked him to close his eyes, "Don't peek. ."

Liang Yuwei closed his eyes and heard her running back to the room and then trotting back. The muffled footsteps made him couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth.

After a while, Chen Zui placed a box on his palm.

The box is very light but feels very textured.

"Can you open your eyes?" Liang Yuwei still closed his eyes obediently.

"That's it."

He turned the box over: "Is it a tie?"

"You'll know if you open it."

Liang Yuwei opened the box and found an envelope inside.

He opened the envelope again and poured out a photo.

It was a composite photo of the two of them in school uniforms, standing side by side.

Both of them were cut out from their graduation photos, but the photos were very natural, like a real group photo.

He looked at the photo in surprise and then looked at Chen Zui.

"Didn't you say that you wanted to take a photo with me when you graduated, but you couldn't find my person?" Chen Zui pointed to the photo and said, "Now I have found it."

"Where did you find it?" Liang Yuwei couldn't put it down, turning it over and over. Look, "Didn't you ask for your graduation photo?"

Years ago, Chen Zui went to visit his wife, who took it out for her.

"It turns out that Teacher Zhang has been saving this graduation photo for me. I took it to scan and asked Ding Yi to ask a friend to help composite it."

She didn't realize that he liked her earlier, so she hoped that something could be done. , to make up for the distance they once had.

Chen Zui touched her face in the photo with his fingertips and said regretfully: "It's a pity that I didn't smile at that time."

Liang Yuwei hugged her tightly and said, "It doesn't matter."

This was already the best birthday, It's also the best birthday gift.

"Fortunately, we didn't get separated. I kept everything you gave me." She put her hands on his ears and whispered, "Classmate Liang Yuwei, I like you too."

She once thought that her life was like The cold winter is like an eternal night, and Liang Yuwei's appearance is like a warm current rushing into the cold winter, and like a beam of warm light entering the darkness.

It was him who let her know that he had repaired her broken memory.

The ice and snow outside the window have not melted yet, but she seems to have smelled the breath of spring.

-In

May, the weather gradually gets hotter.

On Teacher Zhang's first anniversary, Chen Zui and Liang Yuwei went to the cemetery in the suburbs to visit him.

Chen Zui brought a bouquet of flowers and gave them to Teacher Zhang.

The scene of today last year is still vivid in my mind.

Chen Zui told Teacher Zhang that her lawsuit was won, even though the defendant did not come to court.

But the trial has already concluded.

"Thank you, Lao Zhang." Chen Zui looked at Teacher Zhang's photo and said, "Thank you for taking care of me. I'm not afraid of anything anymore."

Before they left, dark clouds suddenly came and a heavy rain came. .

The winding mountain road was difficult to walk, so Chen Zui and Liang Yuwei returned to the car and waited for the rain to pass before setting off.

Half an hour later, the rain became lighter.

Halfway through the car, Liang Yuwei reminded her to look up.

Chen Zui looked up and found that the rain had stopped at some point, and a complete rainbow appeared in front of him, like a gorgeous arch.

She had never seen such a complete and beautiful rainbow.

Liang Yuwei parked the car next to the roadside viewing platform, and the two got out of the car together and took a group photo under the rainbow.

She looked at Liang Yuwei's side face, which overlapped with the boy in her memory.

Everything is just passing by.

Her life has cleared up.

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