love letter from the down and out

Chapter 119

A lot of Christmas lights.The whole street is.Today is the middle of the month, and the boss of the flower shop, Lin, is on a business trip, but the little girl of the shop is waiting at the door, and when they pass by, she sends a bunch of baby's breath to Ji Ning.Ji Wanxuan squeezed her eyes: "Is it still a big bargain at the opening?" The little girl shook her head, covered her mouth with a smile and turned back to the store.Ji Ning frowned at him with flowers in her arms, and Ji Wanxuan pressed her shoulders with a smile and gently pushed into the alley: "Go back soon, Uncle Nie said he made us a lot of delicious food." There are many It's delicious, Auntie Bai puts a lot of thought into it, there is no trace of fishy or spicy food, but the presentation is very good, and the dishes on the table are healthy and delicious.Both of them thought that Ji Ning had recovered, and Uncle Nie almost took out firecrackers happily, but was stopped by Ji Wanxuan.In the past few days without taking medicine, Ji Ning's tasteless side effects in her mouth have improved a lot, but everything she eats is still bland, and she can't swallow too much, but she still eats a whole bowl of rice with dignity.Ji Wanxuan also ate a lot of dishes, and basically cleaned up the entire battlefield, which made Aunt Bai smile.Ji Yuan, who was left behind, drank a lot of wine with Uncle Nie. He didn't drink too much, but Uncle Nie was unfortunately too tall. With his tongue out, he insisted on asking the neighbor's children to take out the cello to perform a show.Ji Wanxuan readily agreed, and used his hands that hadn't touched the strings for nearly half a year to pull the whole jigsaw, which was as thick as autumn.Auntie Bai's expression of being coaxed by him got tangled up again, and while laughing dryly, she asked Ji Ning in a low voice: "Is this usually the movement of the cello..." Ji Ning held back her smile and nodded solemnly: " Yes, the uglier the sound, the higher the national award level." Aunt Bai was relieved.Winter has come quietly without knowing it. It was late at night, and they were chatting with the heater in the house, but the yard suddenly lit up.Ji Wanxuan was a little dazed, and walked out unconsciously.Like the light strips wrapped around the trees at the street corner, the old tree branches, clotheslines, and even the eaves in their yard are all decorated with colorful lanterns.These lamps were all carefully selected by Uncle Nie in the store, and they have all kinds of shapes, including stars and snowflakes.They didn't pay attention when they came back during the day, but it turns out that it will be so beautiful at night.Very surprised.Uncle Nie is a very traditional person in his bones, and he has never liked foreign festivals.In the past, when Ji Wanxuan and Nie Ziyu celebrated Halloween and Christmas, he would laugh at them, but this year, the old man quietly prepared such a big surprise by himself.Ji Ning walked to his side and sighed, "It's pretty." Ji Wanxuan nodded.The TV in the room was playing a certain station’s party, and the cross talk actors on stage made Auntie Bai laugh non-stop. Uncle Nie was still sitting on the wine table, persuading Ji Yuan to have another drink before the driver came over. .The height scale on the wall is changing every year, unknowingly, Ji Wanxuan has grown much taller than Ji Ning.The woman leaned on his shoulder under the light, and said with a faint smile, "That's good, teaser. When I was studying abroad, this kind of life was what I wanted most." In the yard, there are family members and friends, and everyone is waiting for the first snow.very good already.She is content with not having to go back to the other side of the earth to reminisce about the past.Ji Wanxuan hugged her shoulders, leaned her head against the woman, and rubbed her head attached. "Okay." I listen to you.After being discharged from the hospital, Ji Ning seemed to laugh more than before, with eyebrows and eyes crooked all the time.Ji Wanxuan goes to school early, so in order to let Ji Ning sleep more, she wakes up very lightly every day.But one day when he pushed open the bedroom door and walked out, he found that breakfast had been prepared, and Ji Ning was sitting on a chair waiting for him with a smile.This seemed to be exactly the same as the dream scene he had just been interrupted by the alarm clock.Ji Wanxuan ate breakfast under the gentle gaze of her mother like a dream, and then walked chaotically on the way to school by bicycle.While waiting for the first red light, he woke up suddenly, suddenly turned the car around on the one-way lane, stared at the road and rode back quickly.Before entering the door, Ji Wanxuan threw the car against the wall, but when he pushed the door hard and ran into the yard, he almost fell again.Ji Ning was watering Uncle Nie's monstera by the window, she was surprised to hear the movement, raised her head, and asked her son if something had fallen.Ji Wanxuan calmly breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and shook his head: "No." Just because he was afraid that you would leave me behind, he quietly ran away alone.He still went to school, but this day he was always lost in thought. When he was called by the teacher to answer questions in class, he didn't know which page he was talking about. Wen Ya had to remind him quietly.After finally surviving school in the afternoon, he didn't even bother to say hello to Brother Fang, so he ran out of the school impatiently.After crossing the gate and pushing open the door, after seeing Ping Ting's figure clearly behind the curtain, the heartbeat that had been worrying for a day gradually returned to its normal speed.Ji Ning is in the kitchen. "Are you back?" The woman tilted her body and smiled at him: "It's so early, are you in a hurry to come back for the holiday?" Ji Wanxuan was a little confused: "What holiday is it?" Ji Ning looked at him speechlessly: "Christmas. "Christmas, no wonder so many people gave him apples in the past two days, and he almost couldn't eat them.Ji Wanxuan put down her schoolbag and walked to the kitchen.How last year's Christmas Eve was spent, he can't remember much.At that time, he seemed to be still worried about whether he should like Shen Fang or not. Now that he thought about it, it seemed that it was a long time ago.Ji Ning didn't cook Chinese food tonight, she baked some apple pies with the apples brought back by Ji Wanxuan, and ordered him to eat them all with a plate.The fire on the stove is still different from the oven. Ji Ning bullied her son for not having baked pies, but Ji Wanxuan seemed to like it very much and really ate all of them.Ji Ning stared at the empty plate curiously for a while, and offered to suggest: "Let's go out for a walk and digest food." Originally, I just went for a walk in the park near the alley, but I didn't expect to be handed a flower by a familiar neighbor , cheerfully took them to the church for Mass.When she was studying in Paris, although Ji Ning lived near the church, she felt that she lacked piety and only had the mentality of a tourist. Therefore, apart from painting and looking for inspiration, she rarely approached these religious buildings.But I walked in today, and it feels good.Maybe it's because it's so busy here.The church in the park did not have the choir in the movie, but it was packed with neighbors from nearby communities and even many of their alley neighbors.Whether they know each other or not, everyone is exchanging gifts.Ji Wanxuan was a little surprised.They have lived in the Hutong for almost six years, and this is the first time they know that there is such a corner here.He quietly asked Ji Ning: "Is this how Christmas is celebrated in foreign countries?" Ji Ning replied quietly in his ear: "I don't know, I eat dumplings at home at Christmas." The two of them leaned on the chairs and laughed silently trembling for a while.Someone suddenly opened his mouth to sing a carol at this moment, and the surroundings became quiet, only the ethereal singing echoed among the skeletons, which was very pleasant.It is also wonderful that the exotic festival style grows freely in the local area.Ji Ning listened very carefully, but before anyone finished singing, she took Raji Wanxuan's hand and whispered, "Let's go." If we leave now, the beauty can always be frozen in this moment.Also, she couldn't stand still a little bit.Ji Wanxuan held her trembling palm, nodded, and gave a soft "um".The lights in the yard are still on, a hundred times more moving than the scenery on the street, just like Chinese New Year.Ji Wanxuan helped Ji Ning to sit in front of the dressing table, and lay quietly beside her.Winter is coming, and girls always have to make a difficult choice between being beautiful and freezing, but Ji Ning is very talented, and she can dress herself up beautifully and keep warm even when she was a teenager.She is also well dressed today, with a turtleneck sweater, a warm coat, and a rare layer of light makeup before going out, so she turns heads very often on the road.She is rarely so ostentatious, if it wasn't for winter, she would probably change into the cheongsam that Ji Wanxuan gave her.But now that you're back, it's time to remove your makeup.And Ji Wanxuan stared at her brightly, making her mother a little dumbfounded. "Do you know that women's makeup removal process can't be watched casually?" Ji Wanxuan pretended not to see her pale and trembling fingers, and smiled with tears in his eyes. "I don't know, I'll know next time." Ji Ning removed the light base makeup, wiped off the eyeliner that protruded from the end of the eyes and carefully outlined eyebrows, and finally when she was about to remove the red lip color—— She seemed to recall the colorlessness under the lipstick—she put down the makeup remover very naturally, and ended the slow motion of the whole art movie hastily.When she was a smug teenager, she would never have imagined that her first live broadcast of beauty makeup in her life turned out to be a makeup removal process, and there was only one audience.Her baby silly son.The son is really stupid, he didn't know how to reward her after the live broadcast, and asked her without end: "Does it hurt?" The limbs and bones were almost pierced by the endless pain, but Ji Ning was still light. He tapped his forehead lightly, smiling. "It's okay." But how could it be just okay.Before being discharged from the hospital, Ji Wanxuan asked Fanda: "Is it very painful when I'm sick?" The child's front teeth have just erupted halfway, and he smiles a bit silly.He said: "It hurts." "If you take chemotherapy medicine, you will have a stomachache, if you take the medicine for stomach pain, you will have a toothache, if you take the medicine for toothache, your head will hurt again, but if you want to eat it again The nurse sister will not take the medicine." "Brother, it hurts." He knows that the life Ji Ning left for him is not long.the doctor promised him