One day before the Chinese New Year, Pei Zhiheng and Pei's mother finally received Ruan Jiao's New Year's gift.

Pei's mother is a fine silk satin, just right for summer underwear.

And Pei Zhiheng has twenty-two pairs of socks, half of which can only be seen.

After all, it's no longer a problem if the stitches are really big, and there are places where she sewed pimples.

In addition, he had heard Ruan Jiao's voice that she couldn't find a needle several times before.

Pei Zhiheng held the heavy stack of socks, and was very moved, "You did a good job, don't do it next time."

The smile on Ruan Jiao's face faded in an instant, and she raised her eyebrows to look at him, with a faint desire to think of a swordsman in her eyes.

Pei Zhiheng: "..."

His eyes swept across Ruan Jiao's fist hanging on one side, and he coughed lightly with the desire to survive, "You've been stabbed so many times for this, I don't want you to get hurt."

Pei's mother smiled and snorted, teasing: "I only love my daughter-in-law, not my mother, right? If I don't want my daughter-in-law to do it, the old lady can do whatever I want. I have made you clothes and shoes for nearly 20 years. Seeing that you feel sorry for me, just stab me with rough skin and thick flesh?"

Pei Zhiheng looked at Mother Pei with a playful smile, and helplessly raised his hand to rest his forehead, "No one will do it, I will pass the exam in the future, and I will try to buy you a maid and wait for you."

"Hmph." Mother Pei raised her neck arrogantly, "I'm afraid I'll have to wait until the next life to buy a maid with your salary."

"That's right!" Ruan Jiao put her arms around Pei's mother's arm, and said affectionately, "We have the money now to buy a little girl for my mother to serve."

Being pressed by the old lady and the daughter-in-law, Pei Zhiheng showed a wry smile, raised his hand to his mother Pei and Ruan Jiao, and said, "My mother and my wife spare me."

...

On the twenty-eighth day of the new year, Mother Pei was cooking Laba porridge in the kitchen.

Ruan Jiao was holding red paper and Pei Zhiheng was pasting lanterns in the room.

She sat beside her with her chin supported, watching Pei Zhiheng's dexterous fingers shuttle between the bamboo strips, and soon a lantern appeared.

Ruan Jiao's eyes lit up, but she didn't expect that he actually had this skill, and she couldn't put it down while holding the lantern that he had made before it was pasted.

Seeing that she liked it, Pei Zhiheng couldn't help laughing like a child.

Ruan Jiao didn't care, she turned her head to look at him, a little surprised, "Husband, you are amazing! I didn't understand, you already made it up! It's better than the ones sold outside! Last time my mother and I went to buy New Year's goods, Saw this at the grocery store, and it costs twenty coppers a piece! How did you learn it?"

"You know that I lost my father when I was young, my mother dragged me to grow up alone, and the children in the Pei family bullied me. At that time, I was young and couldn't beat them, and I didn't want to look down on the adults, plus the old Pei family at that time. The people in the house come to the house every three to five to make trouble, and I was so annoyed that I hid in the house of a bamboo stripper in the east of the village."

This was the first time Ruan Jiao heard him talk about the past, and even the book had mentioned his childhood experiences in one stroke, so Ruan Jiao couldn't help but become curious when she heard him take the initiative to mention it.

She knew the bamboo stripper.

After his death, because he lost his wife at an early age, had no children and no relatives, and had no relatives, the house was abandoned there.

She often passed there when she was going up the mountain, and she had heard people in the village talking about him.

Pei Zhiheng took the bamboo strips again, continued to make up a lantern, and then slowly said: "You should have heard from the villagers that he has a weird personality, especially he doesn't like children. Those children are afraid of him and hide in his house. , I can stay quiet all day.

He didn't chase me, but he ignored me. But he is very old, and my mother thinks that I will trouble him by staying at his house, so I will take care of him more on weekdays, and occasionally let me bring some food over there, even if he never wants it, I will stay there. Maybe he didn't want to owe our family later? Just teach me to do this. "

"and after?"

"And then he died."

Ruan Jiao: "..."

She originally thought that Pei Zhiheng would tell her a touching story between a strange old man and a gifted child.

As a result, he was stunned by a word.

She didn't know what expression she should make now.

Pei Zhiheng's expression didn't change, he couldn't see sadness, he just said this short sentence.

Ruan Jiao didn't know whether to comfort him or not.

She lowered her eyes and turned the lantern skeleton in her hand, "Is he also your master? Are you sad?"

The second lantern gradually took shape in his hands. He lowered his eyebrows, making it impossible to see through his emotions, "Everyone will die, including you and me. The moment is the most cherished moment."

After saying this, he lifted his eyes and looked at her deeply, "What I cherish now, only you and my mother."

His eyes were a bit complicated, his eyes were burning hot, Ruan Jiao subconsciously looked away and looked elsewhere.

Because she didn't expect him to suddenly confess, her ears were a little hot, and her cheeks were stained with a touch of crimson.

She flicked the lantern that had not been pasted with her hand, but didn't respond, she just changed the subject, "Teach me how to make a lantern."

Pei Zhiheng didn't speak, and after a long while he suddenly let out a low laugh, his laughter was a little spoiled, "Okay!"

Ruan Jiao only felt that the ear on the side close to him was puffy.

She couldn't control her guilty conscience, and couldn't help scolding the system in her heart.

——"It's all your fault, you bastard, you insist on letting me deceive people's feelings! I, Ruan Jiao, have always been open and aboveboard in my work, and you have ruined my reputation all my life!"

【Don't be deceived by him with just a few words! 】

—— "It's obviously that you keep making me lie again! I can't even think about it. When the task is completed, I'm dead in this world. How uncomfortable for him and my mother-in-law! You are doing something wrong!"

【…】

【Jiaojiao, wake up! He said that he cherishes you and likes you, but he didn't even change his love value! 】

After the last time his love value fell, Pei Zhiheng rose again and again on the road. After entering Beijing, he was stuck at 99% and could never move again.

The system was about to be bald, and now hearing Ruan Jiao's words, it was even more worried.

The host's strength is against the sky, but her brain is not very good, and she was deceived by Pei Zhiheng in a few words, and she doesn't know how she survived in the end times.

But thinking about it makes it easier.

If it wasn't so easy to deceive, she would not be killed by others in the last days, and she would not be bound by it.

The system sighed, really heartbroken.

Obviously it is also a nascent system, but at a young age, it has become a parent.

After Ruan Jiao listened to the system, she finally calmed down, who was about to be overwhelmed by guilt.

Looking at the red ninety-nine percent, she choked.

I don't know what happened, but the last 1% seems to be poisonous, and there is no way to complete it.

She couldn't help but began to doubt.

——"Do you have a virus? Otherwise, why is this task always stuck here?"

The system firmly denied it, [Impossible, I often kill viruses! And this world doesn't have viruses from the interstellar network! 】

——"Oh, maybe you have a bug? Otherwise, I can't understand our current situation. It's fine to keep jumping and jumping. It stands to reason that 99% of it is true love, how could it still fall!"

The system was also dumbfounded by Ruan Jiao, [Impossible! 】

——"What is impossible, if there is no problem, what about my mind reading skills?"

system:【……】

Pei Zhiheng listened to Ruan Jiao's quarrel with the system, his eyes darkened, and he picked two of them and handed them to Ruan Jiao, "The bamboo strips are very sharp, you are a novice, be careful not to cut your hands."

The system was directly shut down by Ruan Jiao. After hearing Pei Zhiheng's words, she withdrew her mind, even though it was just an excuse.

But since I said it, I still learned from him seriously, "I will be careful, then you slow down."

There are two people, one is teaching attentively and the other is studying seriously.

Soon Ruan Jiao made one up.

Although it is ridiculously ugly, it can even be said to be a bit grotesque.

But she's still pretty accomplished.

Putting it in the round and beautiful lantern skeleton that Pei Zhiheng made up, it looks like a group of hairy furry mixed with a bald monster.

Pei Zhiheng watched and suddenly laughed.

Ruan Jiao glared at him, "What are you laughing at? Do you dislike my ugliness?"

Pei Zhiheng pursed his lips and hid his smile, "No, what the lady did is very cute."

Ruan Jiao: "..."

She looked at the grotesque thing she had made and fell silent, thanks to him being able to boast about it.

Her hands-on ability is really not good, she just gave up after making one.

Just propping up his chin, he watched Pei Zhiheng make all the lanterns they needed to hang, and then patiently pasted the red paper on them.

The beautiful red lanterns are round and round, and they look very festive.

The taste of the year is even heavier.

Ruan Jiao didn't expect that after he finished the lantern, he would transform the ugly thing she made into a Jade Rabbit lantern.

Ruan Jiao widened her eyes in surprise.

Because have been making lanterns for too long, the sky has gradually darkened.

Pei Zhiheng found a candle, lit the lantern, and handed it over with a smile, with a clearer and gentler voice, "I hope it will grow like this, and things will be new every year."

Under the soft orange candlelight, Pei Zhiheng's facial features seemed to be softened by a filter.

The young man smiled, and her figure was clearly reflected in his deep eyes, as if he couldn't hold her anymore.

Ruan Jiao looked at him blankly.

Just when her mind went blank, the system in her mind suddenly screamed.

【Jiaojiao, Jiaojiao, love is worth moving!The male protagonist's love value has finally risen!Ahhh it's not easy!】

The excited voice of the system suddenly pulled Ruan Jiao back. She didn't know why, but not only did she not feel happy when she heard the system's words, but her heart skipped a beat, and she felt an uncontrollable sense of panic.

She narrowed her eyes slightly and asked calmly, "Is it full?"

【……No.】

Ruan Jiao was stunned for a moment, "Didn't you say it went up?"

The system seemed to be choked by something, and it took a long while to answer, with a bit of grief and indignation, "It's up!It went up by 0.9.】

Ruan Jiao: ???

She ignored the system and looked at the love value on the control panel.

Sure enough, the numbers there changed.

From 99 to 99.9.

Where did the decimal point come from?

Is this love value system learned from Pin Xixi?

Shouldn't it be 0.09 next time it goes up?

The author says:

[May it grow like this, and the phenology will be new every year.] From Lu Zhaolin's "Yuan Ri Shuhuai".