It's mid-January.
The golden wheel hangs high in the sky, and the outdoor temperature is always hovering around 25 degrees, which is so weird that it doesn't look like winter at all.
Chi Yue and Wen Qizhou took a walk after dinner. Thinking that New Year's Eve was approaching, they went to the trading market to see if there were any festive items.
There are twice as many people trading the market than ever before.
Passing by the missing person stall, the stall owner who had just sent away a customer greeted them: "Are you still looking for friends? Many people from Suishi and Yucheng have come here in the past two days."
Yucheng and Lincheng are not far apart.
As soon as he heard Yu Cheng, Chi Yue stopped and took out forty points of supplies and handed them to him: "Find a girl this time."
She described Ge Qinyao's characteristics in detail and still agreed to meet him in three days.
The two parties had a transaction, and she was very confident in the stall owner's ability. After a few words, she and Wen Qizhou went shopping.
There are many stalls selling festive items in the market.
There were blessing characters, lanterns, red envelopes, fireworks and firecrackers found from unknown sources, as well as couplets handwritten by the stall owner.
The stall dedicated to writing couplets was crowded with people, whether they were buying or not, they were all admiring the stall owner’s wonderful handwriting.
Seeing a sign with ten points per pair, Chi Yue did not hesitate to take out supplies of equivalent value in exchange for the couplets he had dried.
Go to the next stall and buy two boxes of fairy wands and sunset fireworks for about the same price.
She rubbed the fireworks box and looked at Wen Qizhou with crooked eyebrows: "This year we can set off fireworks together again."
They also had fireworks last year.
They had just gotten married at that time, and he spent manpower and financial resources to prepare a fireworks show for her near Ocean Park.
In comparison, the few boxes of fireworks in her hand, which could hardly bloom brightly in the sky, looked inferior.
But so what?
At this moment, they are connected. No matter how inferior they are, they can become unique in each other's company.
Wen Qizhou raised his thin lips: "Yes." He held Chi Yue's waist and leaned in: "Is there anything else you want to buy?"
"Gone."
"Then let's go outside."
Chi Yue followed his steps with a smile. As she approached the official building, she was suddenly attracted by the tents set up in the open space and stopped to take a closer look.
The people staying in the tents should be new to the base.
She glanced at the people standing next to the tent, and stopped stopping when she didn't see Ge Qinyao or her brother.
However, in the hot spring in front of the hotel, I saw a familiar figure arguing with someone.
"I've said many times that Brother Shan was bitten to death by a crocodile! People can't be resurrected, so what's the use of making trouble with me?"
Xu Gan frowned and looked at the person opposite.
Ever since he came back from looking for supplies that day, Brother Shan's girlfriend has been pestering him and would come to make trouble with him whenever he got the chance.
"Am I making trouble?" the curly-haired woman sneered: "Brother Shan went out with you! Who knows if it was you who committed the murder?"
"He was the one who committed the murder!"
Xu Qian couldn't bear it.
For the sake of their acquaintance, he didn't mention Brother Shan pushing him into the water, but the curly-haired girl was getting more and more outrageous, so why should he save face for the dead again? Directly explain to the other party what happened that day from beginning to end.
"Impossible!" The curly-haired woman didn't believe it.
She thinks she is the person who knows Brother Shan best: "Brother Shan can't possibly do such a thing. You must be the one to beat him up!"
"You know exactly how I treated you during the time I came from Suishi City!"
Xu Gan stared into the curly-haired girl's eyes and asked her sarcastically: "Tell me, why should I beat her up?"
"you you……"
"Can't you tell?"
The curly-haired girl was holding her breath in her chest and yelled with evasive eyes: "Brother Shan and I were going to get engaged! Now that he is dead, have you ever thought about how I will live?"
"How you live is none of my business?" Xu Qian was also furious and didn't understand the hidden meaning behind her words.
He didn't have a close relationship with the curly-haired girl. In the past, he always took care of her feelings for Brother Shan's sake.
Now there are no people.
He also didn't want to have anything to do with her anymore.
The curly-haired woman simply stated her purpose: "He had an accident when we were going down the mountain with you. You must compensate me!"
"Do you want face?" Xu Qian gritted his teeth and settled the old accounts with her, detailing the materials they borrowed from him: "I can compensate you. You can first return the things you borrowed from me."
"Xu Gan, don't go too far!"
"Who went too far?"
The curly-haired woman was speechless. Xu Qian was not a person who cared too much about face, so he immediately shouted at her to return the supplies.
People passing by were attracted by the sound and subconsciously glanced at her, but the curly-haired woman felt that there was contempt in their eyes, and her expression suddenly became ugly, so she turned around and ran away.
Xu Qian stared at her back and snorted coldly.
He turned around and was about to walk to the hotel when two figures broke into his sight. They strode forward in surprise and pulled Wen Qizhou's arm: "Brother Wen, have you just come back from the mountain?"
"No." Wen Qizhou raised his wrist slightly and pointed the other person to look at the plastic bag he was carrying: "New Year's Eve is coming soon, so we bought a pair of couplets at the market."
"This is a good calligraphy."
Xu Qian glanced at the writing through the plastic bag.
Suddenly I remembered the news about New Year's Eve: "I heard that the base will show us an outdoor movie on New Year's Eve."
"Really? That's good."
"I think so too." He first guessed about the movies that would be played in the base, and then talked about Brother Shan and the curly-haired girl.
Wen Qizhou and Chi Yue responded from time to time.
They heard Xu Qian's confusion, hatred and relief, and knew that he was no longer immersed in the emotion of being stabbed in the back.
When they were about to say goodbye in the corridor, Xu Qian patted his forehead and suddenly said: "By the way, my dad wants to treat you to dinner."
"How long do you have time?" He didn't wait for the two of them to answer, and then said: "He said he would make dumplings and fry bacon for you."
That day he came home soaked all over, and after carefully telling his family about the thrills along the way, they were both frightened and grateful, and kept talking about inviting Wen Qizhou and the others to dinner.
But he forgot to ask for their room number before. He couldn't find anyone for a while, so he thought about talking to them when he met one day.
Wen Qizhou refused: "No need."
He knew that Xu Qian's parents wanted to thank them, but they would be leaving soon and there was no need to meet again.
The reason is simple, I don't want him to be too polite.
"My dad's cooking is very good!" Xu Qian said in a dazzling way, like a commentator on a food show, trying to arouse their taste buds: "Don't you really want to try it?"
"No." Wen Qizhou handed him a cigarette and said something about the future: "Let's get together again when we have the opportunity."
"Okay." Xu Gan couldn't resist him.
He wrote down Wen Qizhou's door number, raised a bright smile, and waved, "Brother Wen, see you on New Year's Eve!"
He responded warmly: "Okay."
