Chen Xia

Chapter 41 New Year's Eve
When little girls gather together for a birthday party, what they look forward to most is a beautiful cake.

Ye Mian took the cake out of the kitchen.

Open that moment.

Jiang Yuan exclaimed "Wow".

What Ye Mian bought was a Black Forest cake, with many small fruits hanging on it, it was so sweet that it looked like it was made from canned fruit, but it looked so pretty!

It looks like a fruit house on a chocolate mountain, and I look like I want to take a bite.

Because there were only two of them, Jiang Yuan and Ye Mian threw away the plastic forks, and each of them ate the cake with a spoon.

Sing happy birthday while eating.

Girls of this age maintain their figures very well and will not gain weight no matter how much they eat.

Even Jiang Yuan only has baby fat on her face.

There is no need for a diet.

"Crack" sound.

Ye Mian was licking the cream on the spoon. When she heard the sound of taking pictures, she looked up in confusion.

Jiang Yuan gestured to Ye Mian, gestured with her fingers, and the phone screen displayed the selfie mode.

Ye Mian smiled, and immediately reached out to show her love.

After taking the photo, the two of them leaned together to watch.

The two young faces in the photo were very beautiful, and Ye Mian realized that there was a dollop of cream on her nose, as if a puppy had been added with special effects.

She patted Jiang Yuan's hand and said, "Send this photo to me, and I'll post it to Moments."

Jiang Yuan nodded, "I understand."

Then click on WeChat and send the photo to Ye Mian.

Ye Mian first clicked on the photo to save it, and then posted it to Moments.

The accompanying text is:
【Thank you, I am very happy today! 】

She thought Jiang Chen would see it, right?
Suddenly, Jiang Yuan came over, squinted her eyes, and said in a low voice: "Wait! There is something wrong with you in your circle of friends, who do you say thank you to?"

"..."

Ye Mian turned her head directly, looked at Jiang Yuan, and deliberately lowered her voice, "Guess!"

"How could I have guessed it?" Jiang Yuan pouted. Seeing that Ye Mian didn't say anything, she started tickling her, "Tell me? Tell me quickly?"

"Guess what!"

"I can not guess it!"

If you make a fuss about this matter, you will be fooled.

Ye Mian's birthday just passed like this.

After sending Jiang Yuan away, it was already night.

She lay on the bed after washing and couldn't sleep at all.

In the darkness, under the quilt, I could hear my own shallow breathing.

And the beating heartbeat.

She thought of today's camellia, and thought of jasmine orchid aromatherapy.

I couldn't help but hug the quilt and jump for joy.

Smelling the faint fragrance, I don't know how long the night passed before I fell asleep.

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As December arrives, the winter vacation is not far away.

Ye Mian would change the water for the camellias in the vase before going to school.

Despite the hard work.

After a few days, the camellias still withered.

Following the method found on her cell phone, Ye Mian tied the camellia branches with ropes and hung them in a ventilated place. After they were air-dried, they were stored in a box for storage.

The fragrance is gone, but the color is still there, and she will open it to dry it out from time to time.

mid-january.

The school is on winter vacation.

The first winter snow fell before the New Year.

Every household packed up their house, Ye Mian was no exception.

Looking at the thin snow outside the yard, she felt very motivated.

When it snowed, her father, Ye Haisheng, got on the nearest train and would be home in the afternoon.

It's the same every year.

Ye Haisheng asked his neighbor Uncle Hu to pick him up at the train station and transported four or five sacks from the pickup truck, all of which were filled with new year's goods brought back from Beicheng.

Ye Mian couldn't carry it, so she could only help her father get the bag and coat back.

After moving, Ye Haisheng handed Uncle Hu a cigarette, opened the new year's goods, took out a box of blue biscuits and a bottle of good wine, and asked Ye Mian to deliver them to Uncle Hu's house.

Uncle Hu refused, but in the end he was too kind, but he didn't let Ye Mian send it over, saying he wanted to take it himself.

While standing on the side of the road smoking, he smiled and said to Ye Haisheng: "Okay, come back! Your family, you just want to be together."

Ye Haisheng said yes repeatedly, put out the cigarette butt in the snow, and said: "Wait for two days, I will save enough money, and I will not go out anymore and stay at home with my daughter."

Ye Mian smiled and sat in the yard listening to the conversation between the two. The storm was about to come, and she thought of Jiang Chen who had no family. He spent this year by himself.

After Ye Haisheng exchanged pleasantries, he went into the house to sort out the New Year's goods.

He brought back a lot of things, and he also divided the cookies, candies, nuts and other things into portions, preparing to distribute them to the neighbors with whom he was close on the first day of the new year to thank them for taking care of them in the past year. This is an old tradition of the Ye family. .

When Ye Haisheng was tidying up, he suddenly asked Ye Mian, "Do you recognize the son of Lao Jiang's family?"

Isn’t that Jiang Chen?

Ye Mian nodded.

Ye Haisheng said: "I heard from your Uncle Hu that something happened to his family. Oh, it sounds so pitiful. You are classmates at the same school. Mianmian, go and see him tomorrow with a piece of new year's goods."

As a father himself, he feels special pity for children as old as his daughter.

Ye Mian's eyes were full of confusion, it wasn't that she didn't want to go, but she was afraid that Jiang Chen wouldn't accept him, so after thinking about it, she decided to put down her things and run away tomorrow.

So he nodded, "Okay, I'll go tomorrow.

The next day, when she was about to carry her things to Jiang Chen's house, Ye Haisheng said, "Mianmian, there's no need to go."

Ye Mian blinked and didn't understand, "Why?"

"He's not at home. I heard he won't come back this year."

After saying that, Ye Hai sighed.

Ye Mian was stunned.

In the old city, Jiang Chen never took a break. He was running around every day and had no time to talk to his neighbors. He even never stopped during the New Year.

Ye Mian returned to the bedroom, looked at the aromatherapy, and dug out her change. She now had more than 1000 yuan saved.

She is not someone who likes to spend money randomly and does not buy toys or cosmetics.

Crying his fingers, Ye Mian calculated that if he kept saving until graduation, it should be quite a lot.

The sound of firecrackers sounds, and the New Year is here.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, Ye Haisheng went to a neighbor's house to drink tea, and Ye Mian went to the yard to watch the fireworks.

The beeps on the phone kept ringing.

Ye Mian took a look and saw that it was the students from Class [-] who were handing out red envelopes in the class group. Although Do Not Disturb was turned on, the red envelope message would still be reminded.

She opened the red envelope sent by Jiang Yuan and received 1 yuan, which made her feel lucky.

The students were having a great time robbing, and it was so lively.

Looking at the class of Class [-], they seem to be very stable. They all send out some New Year's greetings, one after another, which is comparable to the golden sentence at the beginning of a composition.

Looking again, it was the teacher who started sending it.

Ye Mian found it boring, so he joined the second class group and sent a red envelope to the class group.

After thinking about it, she opened the chat boxes of Jiang Yuan and Jiang Chen respectively, and each sent a small red envelope of 88 yuan.

One is a blessing to a friend.

another……

She was afraid that on the bustling New Year's Eve, Jiang Chen wouldn't have any new year's money.

(End of this chapter)