Gu Jiqing doesn’t seem to have any obsession with home, probably because he doesn’t seem to have ever experienced the benefits of the concept of home.
But since Zhou Cibai said this, he felt that that one should be a good one.
So he hugged Zhou Cibai and said, “Okay.”
“But Zhou Cibai.” Gu Jiqing spoke in a gentle voice again.
Zhou Cibai thought he was going to say something touching, so he let out an “En?”
Gu Jiqing slowly said, “Then where are you going to take me to celebrate the New Year, my innocent little creditor?”
“……”
Zhou Cibai then remembered that today was New Year’s Eve, the most important holiday for every family. As a result, he only had time to hurriedly say a few words to Su Yuebai and ask her to help take care of Zhou Zhou and to cover up his lie before rushing to Nanwu. He didn’t prepare anything else.
There were no dumplings, no reunion dinners, no firecrackers, no Spring Festival Gala, and there wasn’t even a decent place to rest in the wilderness.
Zhou Cibai quickly held Gu Jiqing in one hand and took out his phone with the other, “Wait a minute, I’ll find a hotel first.”
However, open the booking app.
Full, full, closed.
Zhou Cibai: “……”
He couldn’t just go to an Internet cafe and stay the night on the first day he was with Gu Jiqing, especially during Chinese New Year.
Then Gu Jiqing would definitely think he was unreliable.
Zhou Cibai quickly searched on his phone, trying to find a good solution. However, after searching for a long time, he noticed that he was completely unfamiliar with Nanwu. In addition, Nanwu is a tourist city, and it has been very popular to travel during the New Year in recent years. It was late at night now too, and he could not find a decent room at all.
He also didn’t want Gu Jiqing to spend the New Year with him in a dirty, smelly room with a hard bed. It was not romantic at all, and there was no sense of ritual.
Fortunately, he had moved all the things he brought for New Year’s Eve in Aranya last time into this car, and the lowest temperature in Nanwu in winter is only around zero degrees, which is much warmer than in the north.
Thinking of this, Zhou Cibai took the bad cat, who was lazily lying on him waiting to watch the show, off his legs and put him on the back seat. Then he got out of the car, took out the old stuff from the trunk, and very skillfully built a simple nest that was as warm as last time.
He then carried Gu Jiqing into the nest, tucked the blanket in for him, said, “Wait for me here obediently,” then got back into the car and sped away.
When he came back, he was holding a large thermos bucket in his hand.
Then, without waiting for Gu Jiqing to ask, he retreated into the tent, sat cross-legged opposite Gu Jiqing, and carefully opened the lid of the thermos.
The hot fragrance immediately filled the entire small space. Gu Jiqing looked at the plump white dumplings in the thermos bucket, raised his eyelashes, and blinked.
Zhou Cibai quickly picked up one, blew on it, and carefully put it into Gu Jiqing’s mouth.
Gu Jiqing opened his mouth, took it in, and chewed it.
Zhou Cibai busily asked. “Is it delicious?”
Gu Jiqing nodded, “It’s delicious.”
Hearing him say it was delicious, Zhou Cibai breathed a sigh of relief.
Gu Jiqing asked again: “Where did it come from?”
Zhou Cibai said, “I originally wanted to go to Xishan Villa to buy some food, but they said that the kitchen was out of ingredients on New Year’s Eve. It turned out that the doorman’s wife and daughter came to visit him from the countryside and brought a lot of dumplings that had just been cooked. I just told them that my partner wanted to eat some and asked if I could buy a bowl for 100 yuan. He said that it was free during the New Year, and he filled a whole thermos bucket for me. So you see, there are still many good people in this world.”
Zhou Cibai really spared so much effort to make him feel the beauty of the world.
Gu Jiqing smiled, “But I guess our Mr. Zhou will not eat for free.”
“I thought the girl was cute, so I secretly gave her a red envelope with 500 yuan in it. She can buy some skirts when spring comes.” Zhou Cibai said as he picked another dumpling and fed it to Gu Jiqing. “The one just now was with three fresh delicacies, and this one should be with corn. See if you like it.”
“I like it.” As a southerner, Gu Jiqing didn’t really like eating pasta since he was a child, but he just felt that today’s dumplings were inexplicably delicious.
As soon as he said he liked it, Zhou Cibai’s mood improved visibly. He stuffed the thermos into Gu Jiqing’s hands and said, “Hold it to warm your hands first.”
Then he got up and moved the car next to the tent. After opening the door, he went back into the tent and asked Gu Jiqing, “Can you hear?”
Gu Jiqing didn’t react at first, but then he heard the familiar Spring Festival Gala announcement.
The network signal on the mountain was poor, and he couldn’t watch the Spring Festival Gala, so Zhou Cibai actually thought of using the car radio.
And when the hosts’ clear and cheerful voices were heard, it seemed as if the New Year’s atmosphere was already there.
He and Zhou Cibai seemed to be just an ordinary couple watching the Spring Festival Gala while eating dumplings. They had no elegant sentiments or style, only a kind of vulgar, worldly sentiment.
Zhou Cibai huddled into the blanket and shamelessly moved his face closer: “Boyfriend, feed me.”
Gu Jiqing fed him one, and Zhou Cibai shamelessly said, “I want more.”
Gu Jiqing fed him another one, and Zhou Cibai said, “You bite off half, then give it to me.”
Gu Jiqing didn’t agree with him: “It’s not clean.”
Zhou Cibai said seriously, “You are my boyfriend. We have already kissed each other. What is unclean about this? My grandma said that if we each eat half of the dumplings, we will not part.”
“Don’t want to.”
“Try it.”
“Don’t want to.”
“Just give it a try.”
“Don’t… um… Zhou Ci… Bai!”
Gu Jiqing originally wanted to ignore him and eat his dumpling by himself, but he was caught off guard, and Zhou Cibai came up and bit off the other half. He was so angry that he kicked Zhou Cibai while struggling to swallow the dumpling.
Zhou Cibai laughed shamelessly and said, “So the ones with corn filling are sweet.”
“Zhou Cibai, you!”
“Hiss——”
Before Gu Jiqing finished his angry words, Zhou Cibai suddenly said, “The countdown has begun.”
“En?”
Gu Jiqing was stunned in place, unable to react.
Zhou Cibai had already counted: “Five, four, three, two, one.”
“Gu Jiqing, Happy New Year. I love you.”
The moment the words fell, the extreme cheers that suddenly rang out on the radio and the fireworks that suddenly bloomed in the night sky were so grand that Gu Jiqing fell into a moment of blankness and tinnitus.
He couldn’t hear anything and could only sit there blankly with a big bowl of dumplings in his arms, watching the person in front of him come up and kiss him on the lips.
It was a sloppy bit of tenderness and solemnity.
Then Zhou Cibai looked him in the eyes and said, “Although this year’s New Year is very simple, I will be by your side every New Year in the future. I will become more mature, more stable, and more powerful as soon as possible, and I will give you a better home. So, Gu Zhizhi, are you willing to wait for me until I become a better person for you?”
That was what Gu Jiqing once said to Zhou Cibai.
At that time, he wanted to give Zhou Cibai complete love.
At this moment, what Zhou Cibai wanted to give him was comprehensive love that spanned a lifetime.
Zhou Cibai had waited for him, and he was also willing to wait for Zhou Cibai, so he returned a kiss that was just as light as a dragonfly’s kiss: “Well, okay, we’ll spend every year together from now on, but Zhou Cibai, I don’t think this New Year is simple, I like it very much. This is the happiest New Year I’ve had in the past fifteen years, and it’s also the best New Year’s gift I’ve ever received.”
Zhou Cibai looked at his gentle eyes, his heart pounding. He tried to push the issue further: “Then does my boyfriend have any New Year gifts for me?”
Gu Jiqing thought for a moment and seriously said, “No.”
Then he stuffed the thermos into Zhou Cibai’s hand and lazily said, “I’m full. I’m so sleepy. I’m going to sleep. Good night, boyfriend.” Then he wrapped himself tightly in the blanket, turned his back to Zhou Cibai, closed his eyes, and showed a sweet sleeping face that showed, “Anyone who has the heart to disturb him is a heartless person.”
Zhou Cibai, who traveled thousands of miles to chase his wife for the New Year but only got a bucket of dumplings: “……”
It turns out that cats are just heartless.
Zhou Cibai kissed Gu Jiqing angrily.
But no matter how angry he was, he couldn’t bear to disturb Gu Jiqing. After the kiss, he could only quickly finish the remaining dumplings, clean up the surroundings, and then fall asleep while hugging Gu Jiqing.
He fell asleep almost as soon as he touched the sleeping bag, his breathing deep and even.
Nearly two days and one night of sleepless nights, and the feeling of holding Gu Jiqing in his arms, also made him sleep particularly soundly.
Gu Jiqing, who was neither sleepy nor asleep, finally turned around.
He used the moonlight outside the tent to touch the tiny stubble on Zhou Cibai’s chin. Thinking of the red bloodshot in Zhou Cibai’s eyes, he sighed in his heart. What a fool! He is this tired, but he only thought about making him happy and didn’t even take a good rest.
Do you really think that you are only nineteen years old and that your energy will last a lifetime?
But Zhou Cibai does have a lot of energy, so he can love someone so unreservedly and treat him well.
It would be a bit unreasonable if he didn’t give such a good boyfriend a decent New Year’s gift.
Gu Jiqing thought about it and kissed Zhou Cibai’s forehead, then sat up and tried to move his arm away. As a result, Zhou Cibai immediately tightened his arm as soon as he touched it and said in a hoarse voice, “Zhi Zhi, be good, don’t move.”
Gu Jiqing said, “Okay, I won’t move.”
Zhou Cibai fell asleep peacefully once again.
How can you be so gullible even when you are asleep?
Gu Jiqing smiled and put his arms into the blanket, then walked out of the tent, returned to the car, opened the suitcase, took out some things, packed them into a backpack, sent a message to Xia Qiao, took out his iPad, and sat in the passenger seat.
In the past, he could only draw very artistic illustrations, most of which were cold and depressing in style. They are very stylish, aesthetic, and classy.
But for some reason, ever since he helped Zhou Cibai draw a banner last time, he suddenly felt that this kind of simple and cute little cartoon was also a good way to relieve and express emotions.
He was simply sketching casually, and soon the backs of a cat and a dog cuddling together appeared on the screen.
The dog was wearing a red satin New Year’s outfit that looked very expensive, while the cat was wearing a cute little vest with two pockets turned out, which were empty and even had a small patch on them.
In front of them were blooming fireworks, red lanterns, and a bucket of plump dumplings.
Behind them, their tails were tightly entangled together, like a Chinese knot that had just been untied.
After finishing the painting, Gu Jiqing felt very satisfied. He didn’t even need to make any changes and just posted it on Weibo with just three words as the caption: A family.
He drew it in a relaxed and casual way, and his original purpose was just to record the wonderful mood of the day in a way he was good at so that he could recall it later. However, as soon as he posted it, red dots kept popping up to prompt for forwarding and commenting.
He is not as active as Xia Qiao, so his interactions on Weibo have never been very lively.
This degree is somewhat abnormal.
Gu Jiqing refreshed the page and found that the previous cat and dog series had more reposts and comments than the previous artistic illustrations.
Sure enough, in their busy lives, most ordinary people need something cute, gentle, and healing.
Gu Jiqing did not feel frustrated or aggrieved that his previous art illustrations were not appreciated. He just smiled slightly at the comments that expressed that they were healed by the cute style of painting.
It seems that it is true that those who are close to vermilion become red, those who are close to ink become black1It’s a Chinese idiom meaning that people are influenced by their surroundings., and those who are close to Zhou Cibai become lovely.
At the same time, Xia Qiao replied to his message: [Ah, Gu Gu, I just finished playing Landlord with my parents and saw the message. I am still in touch with several junior students in the student union. What’s the matter?]
Gu Jiqing replied: [Nothing, I just wanted to ask if the junior students in the dance team still hide the key to the practice room under the flower pot at the door]
[Xiao Qiao is not Xiao Qiao]: ?
[Zhou Dagou’s Gu Xiaomao]: Tomorrow I want to take my boyfriend to make up for puppy love
