Zhan Weiyang cried for a long time until his eyes were swollen. He asked Pei Qing worriedly, “You won’t leave me, will you?”
Pei Qing said softly, “How could that be?”
Zhan Weiyang said, “But you’re going to be away for so long.”
Pei Qing patted his back and asked, “But I can’t always be with you. What if I go on a business trip for work in the future, and my Yangyang is alone at home?”
Zhan Weiyang thought for a while and asked, “Can’t you take me with you?”
Pei Qing smiled and asked, “How can I take you with me? You’re so big, I can’t fit you in my pocket.”
Zhan Weiyang felt that he was right and felt very distressed.
Pei Qing comforted him, “Although I can’t take you with me at all times, I will miss you. We can also video chat. I will also bring you a gift when I come back, okay?”
Zhan Weiyang reluctantly accepted it.
Pei Qing then asked, “Are you feeling better now?”
Zhan Weiyang did not answer but grabbed Pei Qing’s clothes tightly with one hand and asked, “Can you not leave?”
Pei Qing said, “If I can’t graduate and find a job, how can I support you in the future?”
Zhan Weiyang said seriously, “I can support you.”
Pei Qing smiled and said, “How can you support me? You don’t have a job yourself, and now you can’t even support yourself.”
Zhan Weiyang said, “I can go to work to support you.”
Pei Qing smiled and said nothing.
Zhan Weiyang looked up at him, “Why don’t you say anything? I’m serious, do you want to consider it?”
Pei Qing was still just smiling but didn’t say anything.
Zhan Weiyang wanted to break away from his arms and said anxiously, “Don’t you believe me?”
Pei Qing quickly hugged him tightly with his arms, pressed his head to prevent him from struggling, and said, “I believe you. I’m just very happy.”
“What are you happy about?” Zhan Weiyang asked in a muffled voice.
Pei Qing said, “I’m just happy that someone likes me so much and is even willing to work to support me.”
Zhan Weiyang stopped struggling and said, “Yes, I like you too much; I think you can consider it.”
Pei Qing smiled and said, “I will seriously consider it.”
After a while, Zhan Weiguang came up to call them and said that the party had started, and Grandma wanted everyone to go downstairs to watch it. So Pei Qing took Zhan Weiyang back to the first floor.
The Spring Festival Gala had already started. In addition to sitting around on the sofa watching TV, everyone also had a mahjong table next to them.
Zhan Weiguang invited Pei Qing to play mahjong, but Pei Qing said, “You guys play; I don’t want to play.”
Zhan Yingfei was originally watching the Spring Festival Gala with Grandma. Hearing this, he looked up and said to Pei Qing, “Xiao Qing, you accompany them. They don’t have enough people.”
Pei Qing agreed to sit down and sat down at the mahjong table to play mahjong with Zhan Weiguang and his second aunt Zhan Weiyang. Zhan Xiusong wanted to join the mahjong table but was stopped by the adults and replaced by Zhan Xueqing, who was not very willing.
Grandma sat on the sofa, patted the seat next to her, and said to Zhan Weiyang, “Yangyang, come and watch the gala with Grandma.”
Zhan Weiyang did not agree and walked to the dining room.
Next to the dining table, Zhan Pengcheng, Zhan Heming, and Pei Jingrong were still sitting together, smoking and chatting. The dining table had been cleaned up, and Auntie Luo was washing dishes in the kitchen.
Zhan Pengcheng obviously drank a lot of wine. Under the dim light of the restaurant, his whole face looked red. He saw Zhan Weiyang, waved his hand and said, “Come here, Yangyang.”
Zhan Weiyang walked to his side and smelled a bad smell of smoke and alcohol, and couldn’t help frowning.
Zhan Pengcheng grabbed Zhan Weiyang’s hand and asked him, “Is Yangyang full?”
Zhan Weiyang said, “Yeah.”
Zhan Pengcheng leaned sideways, looked up at him, and asked, “Why did you leave halfway through just now?”
Zhan Weiyang said, “Because I was full.”
Zhan Pengcheng nodded, “I’ll ask Auntie Luo to cook some dumplings for everyone as a midnight snack later; you can eat some more.”
Zhan Weiyang didn’t speak.
Zhan Pengcheng pulled him, “Do you want to sit with Dad?”
Zhan Weiyang said, “I don’t want to.”
Zhan Pengcheng then let go of his hand and said, “Then go watch the party with Grandma.”
Zhan Weiyang left the dining table and returned to the living room. He did not sit on the sofa to watch the party but lifted a chair and put it next to Pei Qing, and sat down obediently to watch him play cards.
Zhan Xueqing raised her head and glanced at Zhan Weiyang.
Zhan Weiyang did not notice. He moved closer to look at the cards in front of Pei Qing and soon sat up straight again. He could not understand it; he just wanted to sit next to Pei Qing.
Pei Qing also seemed a bit nonchalant. He leaned in closer to Zhan Weiyang and asked, “Do you want to play?”
Before Zhan Weiyang answered, Zhan Weiguang said, “Don’t let him. He doesn’t know how to play.”
After that, Zhan Weiguang said to Zhan Weiyang, “Just sit there.”
Zhan Weiyang looked at him unhappily, then bent his knees and raised both feet to step on the stool, hunched his back and hugged his legs to play with his mobile phone.
He sent a message to Chen Youyou: “Happy New Year.”
After a while, Chen Youyou replied to him: “Too early.”
Zhan Weiyang didn’t understand: “What do you mean too early?”
Chen Youyou replied: “It isn’t New Year’s Day yet. You have to send it after twelve o’clock.”
Zhan Weiyang had to type: “Okay.”
Then, he put the phone back in his jacket pocket and leaned his head on Pei Qing’s shoulder.
Zhan Weiguang looked at him with dissatisfaction, “Sit down properly. How can Qing ge play cards like this?”
Pei Qing said, “It’s okay, let him lean on.” Then, he adjusted the angle to make Zhan Weiyang lean on him more comfortably.
After a while, Zhan Pengcheng and the others came out of the dining room, and Pei Qing stood up and gave his seat to Zhan Heming.
Zhan Weiyang followed Pei Qing to sit next to the sofa, and the family chatted while watching the evening party.
At about ten o’clock, Auntie Luo went to cook a large plate of dumplings for everyone as a midnight snack. The people playing mahjong stopped and gathered around the coffee table to eat dumplings. When they finished eating, Grandma couldn’t stand it anymore and went back to her room, wrapped in her blanket, to sleep.
So Zhan Yingfei turned down the volume of the TV and turned off the lights in the living room, leaving only a small spotlight to illuminate the mahjong table.
Others were watching TV and chatting; Pei Qing and Zhan Weiyang sat in the corner, Zhan Weiyang was playing games with his mobile phone, and Pei Qing was watching next to him.
The surrounding light was dim, with only the fluorescent light from the TV screen shining on their faces. The sound of mahjong mixed with the sound of the TV and the voices of Zhan Pengcheng and the others was like a barrier separating this corner.
When it was almost twelve o’clock, Zhan Weiyang received a message from Chen Youyou, saying to him: “Remember to send me a Happy New Year at twelve o’clock.”
After reading the message, Zhan Weiyang did not reply to him immediately but looked up at Pei Qing and said, “The New Year is coming.”
Pei Qing said ‘En’ softly.
Zhan Weiyang had experienced so many New Years since he was a child, and this year seemed to be particularly different for him.
He began to get a little excited and waited for the New Year with trepidation.
The countdown to the Spring Festival Gala on TV began, and those who should be chatting in the living room continued to chat, and those who were playing cards continued to play cards without being disrupted by the countdown.
Only Zhan Weiyang stopped. He looked up at Pei Qing with expectations in his eyes that he could not explain.
They were in the corner, and the people sitting on the sofa could not see them unless they turned their heads to look. And among the people at the mahjong table, only Zhan Xueqing was facing them.
Zhan Xueqing played cards carelessly all night. She didn’t want to play, but she would be even less in the mood to sit and watch TV if she didn’t play.
At this time, she heard the countdown on the TV, and she couldn’t help but look up in the direction of Pei Qing and the others.
On the TV, when the countdown to the New Year was about to reach one, Zhan Xueqing saw Pei Qing lower his head and kiss Zhan Weiyang’s lips very lightly and quickly and then whisper something.
Then Pei Qing raised his head, seemed to notice Zhan Xueqing’s sight, and looked at her calmly.
Zhan Xueqing fiddled with the cards in her hand, casually playing one. Her mind was completely blank.
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