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Ya Xiao almost rolled and crawled to the side of the punch card machine and pressed her fingerprints without coming up for air. The colleague beside her tsked and shook her head, “Xiao Yang, what’s wrong with being in such a hurry every day these days?” She bites a leather band in her mouth and gathers her hair with both hands sardonically, “It’s cold, the blanket is too warm so I slept lazily.” In fact, she woke up very early these days, only to spend her time dawdling with the person under the blanket.

In good conscience, it was really warm for two people to sleep together in this dank weather. They didn’t have any heating equipment in the house, and she couldn’t afford to buy an electric blanket, so she carried herself over on a tiny warm water bag until the man slept over. After he slept over, especially after the two of them had been together for a few days, the original separate quilts were gathered together and became hotter and hotter. She used to rub his earlobe with her hand every night before going to bed, as stubbornly possessive as a baby of a familiar-smelling cotton fabric. He would start to twist his head to avoid her, but his eyes and mouth curved up in unison as his hands dug into her shirt and slowly rubbed up along her back. She would arch her back and grunt in comfort, but her hands didn’t let up at all as she twisted his ears, sometimes with too much force and he wasn’t annoyed, just tickling her back in circles with his fingers making her giggle. She thought she liked to sleep with him cuddling, especially when she opened her eyes to see his face close at hand, her ear close to his heart place, closed her eyes can feel the power of his momentum.

It was easy for a man and a woman to burn with fire, not to mention the fact that they had already fully ascertained each other’s feelings, and it was only natural for them to be on fire in such a situation. But I don’t know if God is deliberately against them, the night the two quilts were merged, she was entertaining her great aunt, so she could only kiss and touch and cuddle.

The night after her aunt left, the two of them stripped themselves like soup dumplings, and when they were naked and stuck together, ready to circle and fork, she accidentally stepped on his wound. When she lifted the gauze and saw the blood oozing out of the wound, her scalp went numb and she rolled and crawled off of him. Straight scolded him unkind, lied to her that the injury early well coaxed her to use the female on top, he also did not want to want to be him have a good or bad she fell into the psychological shadow of the future days can be how to live? Therefore, even if he said resolutely that he would never mind the blood bath, she also resolutely refused.

Now he is also in the recovery period, just to really can’t stay up at night on the red eyes and stripped her naked without a head to a nibble, must be gnawed on her body sweaty eyes red, and finally annoyed to lift his foot kicked him to the side this only to give up.

This day is the New Year, is also considered a warm-up festival before the New Year. Some of the more reasonable units are an hour early to release the staff back, some more generously put half a day. Supermarkets are obviously not the ones that can take an early vacation, instead it is busier than usual during the New Year holidays. Although Yaxiao is a civilian, but the fragmented work of the organization, the time to leave work is also naturally delayed.

At seven o’clock, it was already dark outside.

Shan Yanxiu opened the door with an unpleasant face, half complaining, “Why so late.” The rental place did not install a telephone, she changed the number of the original cell phone and threw it as a landline. Anyway, she is the supermarket and home two points a line every day, the office has a phone so did not bring a cell phone.

“It’s New Year’s Eve,” she said as she dumped the contents of the plastic into the sink and turned on the tap to wash them, “the meat is pretty good today, and the fish is pretty good, too, but it’s a shame you can’t eat it. Otherwise there’s a good-sized blackfish on special, just the right size for long wounds if you make soup. Is the rice ready?”

“It’s all ready, wash your hands and you can eat.”

“Isn’t it said to wait for me to come back to stir fry it? …… Ayan, it’s not eating noodles again tonight.” Today was his turn to cook, but this man although the steamed rice is delicious but the vegetables are fried extremely bad. So every time it’s his turn to cook, it’s invariably boiled noodles, fried noodles, salted noodles, mixed noodles, and it’s almost like eating noodles. Today how to say is also the New Year, she also specially instructed before leaving the door that do not get noodles, he only need to be responsible for steaming a rice on the line.

“It’s not cooking noodles, it’s spaghetti.”

She gave him an odd look: powder and pasta, is there a difference?

In fact, there was a difference. Cooked pasta at least had soup, noodles, vegetables and a few shreds of meat. Spaghetti, only has noodles and sauce. Ya Xiao looked at the large plate in front of her with an egg-butt expression, boiled spaghetti in salt water with two slices of tomato garnished on the side and no sign of sauce, “That’s it?”

“Of course it’s more than that.” The man’s expression was tainted with some smugness, his hand pointed back, “Four flavors of sauce, choose your own.” Looking at her rather frustrated face, his little smugness immediately came to a halt, “What’s wrong? Not good?”

At least six bowls of food are needed for the New Year, she gave him a sad look, thinking that it was really naive to pin her hopes on this rabbit man, “No, it’s too shabby.” After saying that, she watched the male rabbit’s ears, which were originally stretched up waiting to hear praise, wilt down little by little, and couldn’t bear to do so, “Forget it, it’s barely edible.”

“Don’t force yourself if you don’t want to eat.” The rabbit with ears hanging down also has dignity, “You wait, I’ll go outside and fry a few dishes and come back.”

“The small fry store closed a long time ago for today’s New Year’s Eve.” She raised her foot to stop in front of him, the old bossy, “Go to the side, sister to fry vegetables.”

Hurriedly prepared dinner but also seemingly, steamed pork ribs, peppers stuffed with meat and braised jade tofu, soup is too late to boil, just grabbed a dry purple cabbage stirred some groundnut powder to make gravy soup. He looked at it with disgust, “How can I drink it if it’s sticky?” He said, “How can I drink it if it’s slimy?” In the end, he ate it all.

There is an important program in the New Year, that is to sacrifice to Zao Gong, and the offering must be sweet, meaning that the heavens speak sweetly of good things and bless the coming year with good fortune. It was true that they were now living in someone else’s house, and there was no proper Zaogong or landlord seat in it, but she still remembered the tradition very well. What’s more, in her memories of the Lunar New Year, sacrificing to Zaogong gave her too much joy, and whenever she thought of it, her first reaction was, “Oh, sacrificing to Zaogong, there will be sugar cookies to eat again!

This year, she can’t eat sugar cookies in another country, but she can make sweet snacks to comfort her body and mind. Ya Xiao planned a day in advance, lotus root ready glutinous rice also soaked on. Just do sugar lotus root in addition to a little skill, patience is more important. To be in the fat and stumpy like a baby arm like lotus root little by little into the glutinous rice is very time-consuming, like her such a gluttonous people will only do two or three times a year.

But today …… there is a helper.

She put the soaked glutinous rice to the side, greeted the man to sit down, began to guide the instructions, “Na, first cut the lotus root to …… asshole, do not cut from the center of the wow …… nor can you cut in half! Just cut the head and tail! Then …… see these little holes? Well, you use a small spoon to fill in the glutinous rice, bit by bit ……, shit, not grain by grain! Well …… you can’t just poke the glutinous rice with the lotus root, it’s too speculative …… don’t fill it too loosely, if it’s too loose it won’t taste good, and you can’t fill it too tightly, if it’s too tight, it won’t look good when it’s steamed and cut…. …Fill it up and then put the lid on it and poke it with a toothpick. Yeehaw… watch out, you’re poking my hand!” She slurps on the finger poked by the toothpick and smacks her mouth, “That’s it, fill these lotus roots according to this process.”

Shan Yanxiu uses a small spoon to fill the lotus root holes with glutinous rice bit by bit, casually asking her, “I’ll fill the lotus root, then what will you do?”

“Filling the pig intestines!” She naturally sat across from him, filling the cleaned pig intestines with the salted glutinous rice stuffing, “You’re in luck, I haven’t made this for some years, not everyone can eat it.” As expected to see the opposite side of the man grinned, made a disgusted expression, then very indignant yelled, “Why, I just like to eat offal can not wow, two days ago to buy the brined pig’s ears you ate how happy ah, eat a plate and then ask for a plate.”

“You lied to me,” he said angrily, “You said it was pig’s feet tendon and I ate it.” And he coaxed him to eat it to grow wounds.

“What’s the point of saying so much, just say if it’s good or not.” She scoffed, “Besides, I even stewed peanut pig’s feet for you the day before yesterday, and you didn’t even finish it.” That’s what she hated about him, she obviously liked it and ate it all, as soon as she heard it was pig’s ears her face changed and she just barely managed to run to the bathroom and throw up in front of her.

“Next time don’t fix me something like that.” He could eat pork, but he refused to eat a specific organ from a pig. It was devastating to think about, overseas this pig’s ear was something you wouldn’t want to feed to a dog.

“I won’t even give it to you if you want it.” She made a face, “You know how expensive brussel sprouts are these days, I can’t even bear to look at a brined pig’s tail.” She winks, “You know, pig’s tail, so long a, thin QQ ground. Chopped into such a small one by one, crunchy, delicious.”

The white lotus root poked straight into the glutinous rice basin, “Say it again and I’ll stop, you fill it yourself.” This woman has been getting more and more over the top lately, having to piss him off. He was also guilty of knowing that she was doing it on purpose but still couldn’t control his emotions, and in the end all he could do was look at her smug face and silently purr inwardly.

Yo yo, the arrogant man is angry hey. Ya Xiao has temporarily bargained for a mouth on the cheap mood, but also very contented to sound the gold retreat, and continue to have a chat with him without a chat gossip. Is it to collect utility bills or the street office to check the account?

She opened the door and saw the people standing outside suddenly felt a thunderbolt in the sky, splitting her head full of hair strands to stand up straight.

“Xiao Yang, the leaders are sending you warmth!”

Socialism is good, sending warmth is the best way to pick the right time.

Ya Xiao knew early on that the company leaders would go through this warmth and care program for frontline employees near the annual festival, and most of the visits were to employees with financial difficulties or those who were alone outside the company. Of course, these employees are not in the minority, so it is planned to select a few more representative employees to send warmth. She was wondering, there was no herself in the list of sending warmth, how come these lords took the wind out of their sails and ran to her home today? Or was it when the two of them, she and the demon, were face to face stuffing lotus root pig intestines in a very harmonious and loving manner?

“Xiao Xiao, your coworker?” Warm palms wrapped around her shoulders with a slight force, and he had a warm smile on his face that she had never seen before – it was weird, “Why don’t you invite someone in?” She stupidly twisted her head ‘ah’ and stepped aside to greet the big and small leaders to come in.

The office director Lao Zhang is a human savant, explaining in a low voice as he passes by her, “Tonight I was supposed to go to the cleaning department’s Xiao Li’s house, but it turned out that no one was home, saying that whatever relatives were here had gone to a restaurant. It just so happens that big sister Ma said that you and her second grandmother of the same building, close to each other, so I came by the way. Deliver some things, take a few pictures and leave.” The implication was that you were lucky today.

She silently leaned in her heart, thinking that you have come so far is not just to take a few photos for show, who cares about your peanuts and melon seeds couplets wall stickers. Sister is cultivating a good ambiguous atmosphere all of a sudden you group of melodrama to wash away, really upset!

Just upset to be upset, the leader came or have to be entertained. Ya Xiao poured tea and sent it to the living room where there is already a happy scene, the general manager of the old Su sat in the middle of the long sofa on one side of the old Zhang, on the other side of the single Yan Xiu, who usually rarely deal with people, the two sides talk happily.

This situation is not right ah!

Ya Xiao’s heart alarm bells ringing, forced himself to calmly go over to greet, “Come, come and drink tea, what did you guys say just now, so energized.”

“Say you this little girl speed really fast Oh, last month when you joined the job is still unmarried, the results of the family also did not give everyone a happy candy.” Personnel director surnamed Ma, known as Ma big sister, keen on gossip and take advantage of small advantages, private people also a little obscene, “Next time there are collective activities can be brought to the family ah.”

Ya Xiao played dumb and smiled, “I should, I should.” Gross, she is now also unmarried, just …… just more a fake marriage license well.

Big Sister Ma dragged her to sit on the side away from the male compatriots, smiling, “Xiao Yang, your husband is not working right now, right. Our supermarket’s security department is just short of a security captain, so I’ll ask your husband to give it a try. The young man is tall and seems to have a good physique, he’ll definitely pass.”

Ya Xiao’s back was cold, couldn’t help but shiver, “An …… security captain?” Joking, Pu supermarket security officer that uniform, the body again good people wear and oil barrels.

Don’t be too by tread people oh!

“You do not look down on the dry security, which when the captain of a month also has more than two thousand dollars, always better than at home idle.” Ma big sister gossip, “I tell you, if a man is idle at home for a long time there will always be a bit of thought. Especially just you a person to support the family, this to normal men he will be a little unbalanced. I see him like this before is also a good mix, but now the world is not good …… anyway or serious to find a thing for him to do it, young people do not think too high, married to have to support the family’s consciousness!”

Ya Xiao embarrassed and embarrassed, full of thoughts of the demon’s appearance in an oil drum style uniform – too scary. On the other hand, Big Sister Ma was still chattering away, “Look just as I’m coming, do you have his ID card? I copy down the number tomorrow to go to the police station to prepare a case to check the bottom, if there is no problem, fill out a form can work. Family members, we are still assured, but also have to prioritize care.”

ID card, police station, and filing?

He that is a fake license ah!

Ya Xiao’s scalp went numb, his whole body and shaking like electricity, “No, no, no, don’t, no need.” Seeing Big Sister Ma’s face of astonishment, vaguely also somewhat unhappy. She was self-conscious of losing her temper and blurted out in a panic, “I, I mean, I, we’re preparing to have a child this while.” The words came out and she hated that she couldn’t slap herself, what a shitty excuse!

Big Sister Ma poofed out a laugh, “What does having a child have to do with him getting a job? It’s hard not to think that he came to get pregnant and give birth to a doll on the side with wow.”

Lies said crooked, want to correct back only to say more awkward thunder words to, Ya Xiao do not remember tonight I open out this face a few times, “Ma big sister, truth and you say it, you do not just look at him now this looks like quite sturdy. He …… his body is actually not very good, well …… that is, is because of unemployment, the blow is big people are a little ……. A while ago has been in the home to raise, just recently the color of the gas only a little better.” God, the next thunder struck her to death! Is she brain-damaged? How could she tell such an outrageous lie? What’s even more outrageous is that there are actually people who believe it!

“Oh yo, this is also too miserable,” Ma big sister’s eyes drifted one by one to the handsome man sitting not far away, “are struck by the whole can not be out of the seed …… made into this ah. Tsk tsk, small Yang you can really hard wow. Hey, go to see a doctor no, I know a Chinese medicine is good, you take him to see.”

She made up lies to make up are almost spitting blood, but still have to hold on, “Looked at, the doctor has seen, said that now slowly recovered. After a while ……” she shuddered, “there will be no problem.”

Big Sister Ma sighed in relief, “That’s good, that’s good. What’s wrong with young people nowadays, they can get any disease at a young age. Hey, it’s not easy for you either, the pressure on that family in your house must also be great, men take such things very seriously.” Pat her tender paw, “since in recovery, that must also soon be all right, wedding candy did not eat on, red egg to remember to share oh.”

Ya Xiao’s face at this time is not only green melon melon, vaguely there are signs of cracking, “Red …… red egg ah. Heh heh …… why should I share the red egg?”

Ma big sister was infected by her laughter, also very obscene smile, “This big sister has experience, see you and your husband ass are the same warped, guaranteed to give birth to a son. If you want to have a son, you have to score red eggs.”

Holy shit, red balls!