Chapter 131: Becoming more like a home

As Christmas Eve approaches, the Christmas spirit grows.

Christmas is an important holiday in Western countries, and with the current international trend, many young men and women are starting to celebrate Christmas, which is actually Valentine's Day, every year. Shen Yu also has to admire the marketing efforts that so many businesses have been making, except for Qingming, there is no holiday that cannot be celebrated as Valentine's Day.

On the 24th, a Thursday, Shen Yu went to the library as usual to pick up Li Xiang at the end of the school day.

The school also had some colourful lights and many classes had Christmas parties, where the class exchanged gifts and so on.

When I arrived at the entrance of the library, I met Asaba Li Xiang.

She is wearing an orange woolen hat today with a little white ball of fur at the top that looks like a Christmas hat.

She was wearing gloves on both hands, covering her face from time to time, and then looking in the direction of Shen Yu, and when she breathed, a cloud of white air came out of her mouth.

Probably because she had seen the familiar figure from afar, the silly girl with the white breath seemed to have her eyes lit up for a moment, and the next moment she ran happily towards the figure and stood in front of him.

"Shen Yu!"

"Not cold?"

Shen Yu looked at her face, which was a little red from the cold wind, and the tip of her nose, which was also frozen red.

"It's super cold!"

"So don't you go inside the library and wait ......"

"I wanted to be the first to see you."

"...... is boring."

Shen Yu says so, but every time I see her running from afar, I feel warm and fuzzy.

After Shen Yu, Li Xiang was walking close to him.

Now that it's cold, every time I walk with him, I'm tempted to hug his arms or tuck my little hands into his pockets, but Shen Yu is so annoying, his own two hands stuff his coat pockets and he deliberately arches his palms up to keep her out of them, not giving her any gaps.

Shen Yu's trouser pockets were empty, but the reserved girl couldn't put her hand in his trouser pocket, she was still inside the school and would be ashamed to be seen.

So Li Xiang had to stay as close to him as possible, bumping their arms and bodies between them as they walked.

When walking, Shen Yu looked ahead and Li Xiang watched his steps. When he took his left leg, she took her left leg and when she took her right leg, she took her right leg.

"I watched the weather forecast and it said it would snow tomorrow for Christmas!"

"Let's have a little snow, Sunan. This place won't give you a chance to build a snowman."

Every winter it snows in Sunan, but moderate to heavy snowfall is rare, with small flakes in the sky and very little snow.

"How did Shen Yu know I wanted to build a snowman?"

"Kids love to build snowmen."

"So I'm a child?"

"You're silly."

When Shen Yu's hand was finally out of his coat pocket, Li Xiang sat on the back of the motorbike, contentedly tucking his hand into his coat pocket and hugging him tightly as his whole body was pressed up against his back.

The feeling was warm, she could hear Shen Yu's heartbeat through her clothes and her little hands, hidden in his coat pocket, could move about with impunity.

Shen Yu also felt less cold and rode out of the school, slowly, because if he rode faster she would say it was so windy and cold again and she would stick to him even more.

A number of businesses on the street had Christmas trees with coloured lights in front of them, marketing themselves for the festive season.

I don't know if it's psychological or not, but Shen Yu feels that the Christmas spirit is much stronger this year than before, and he seems to have no memory of previous Christmases, as if he has never had one.

As the saying goes, what you think is what you see, and until Li Xiang arrived, he really wasn't paying attention to anything related to Christmas.

"I bought some ribbons, and some coloured lights, and red socks, so when we get home, will you hang them with me?"

"When did you buy it, why didn't I see it ......"

"I bought it online, you weren't home for class, so the courier delivered it, lots of it!"

"It's too much of a hassle, isn't it? You have to take it down again within two days of hanging it up. There are only two of us in our house, why make it so fancy ......"

"Well, well, I've already bought it, we'll do it this year and not next year."

"All right."

Shen Yu thought, "I've bought it all, so let's do it this time. I promised to spend Christmas with her anyway, so I'll do it however she wants, but I don't want to do it next year, or the year after, or ever again.

Back at home, Asaba Li Xiang dragged two boxes of deliveries out of the utility room on the ground floor, and Shen Yu helped her carry them upstairs.

Half an hour before we returned, Xiaomeng I had already turned on the heating in the house, and when we came up to the first floor, we felt warm and comfortable.

Shen Yu put the delivery box down and Bai Xiaomeng jumped off the box, because Shen Yu couldn't carry Xiaomeng with the box, Bai Xiaomeng sat on the box and waited for him to carry it with him.

"I'll go ahead and make dinner!"

"Hmm."

Li Xiang went to the kitchen to prepare lunch, Shen Yu helped to wash the pots and pans and cook the rice, and when she came out, she took the key and cut open the delivery box and took out all the things inside.

There were lights, ribbons, balloons of all colours, little cards, Christmas hats, red socks and sweets ...... and all sorts of fancy things.

Shen Yu didn't know how to get it right, so he took a pack of balloons out first and inflated them with the pump given by the seller.

Bai Xiaomeng was playing with a balloon. Shen Yu filled ten balloons and two of them were burst, so Shen Yu took him away and stopped him from jumping.

After lunch, Shen Yu worked with Li Xiang to set up the house.

Hang these coloured lights ribbons on the wall with the aid of tape or buckles or string, and these Christmas wallpapers too.

"Positive?"

Shen Yu gestures on the wall with a sticker, while Li Xiang is behind him, helping to see where to place it.

"Twist down a little ......"

"How about this?"

"Twist it up a little more ......"

"Isn't that the same as just now!"

"Not the same, not the same ......"

After finishing these things, Shen Yu sat on the sofa with Li Xiang and blew up the balloons. Li Xiang was more dexterous, so she was responsible for tying the balloons, while Shen Yu was clumsy, and when he tied the balloons, he always let the air out of the balloons.

So Li Xiang found the opportunity to slap him with his little hand and said disgustedly, " Shen Yu you are so silly!"

Shen Yu was bullied by her and to prove that he was not silly, he stopped blowing up balloons and wanted to tie his mouth, so Li Xiang sat next to him and showed him how to do it best and fastest.

"Squeeze it tight like this ...... turn it around ...... and come back around ......"

It is inevitable that the two hands will touch as they interact.

Whenever Li Xiang 'accidentally' touches him, Shen Yu's fingers always stiffen subconsciously. Her small hands are slightly cool and delicate to the touch, and when she touches him, it feels like a small ant is crawling around, tickling the heart.

Shen Yu looked at her and saw that she had her head down, as if she was concentrating on teaching him, but in fact the skin from the tip of her ear to her neck was already flushed.

"You ...... you don't always take advantage of me ......" Shen Yu whispered.

"I'm not... I'm not! No more teaching you! Shen Yu is the sickest!"

She grunted, looking embarrassed, turned away with a red face, blew up her own balloon and tied it herself, ignoring him.

Only this ignoring him didn't last three minutes before she couldn't hold her tongue again and came over to Shen Yu's side, chattering away to talk to him.

"It's quicker if we do it together ......"

Shen Yu blows up a balloon for her, pinches the mouth afterwards and brings it to her, she then touches his hand in passing and takes the balloon and ties the mouth.

The two of them are not bored doing this boring job together.

The room is warm, the sofa is soft, the cat sleeps peacefully in his arms and the young girl murmurs by his side.

"Isn't it Christmas Eve tonight? Over at your international students, there's a party or something, I think?"

"Well, but it's all the Western students who haven't gone back to party together, and it's late, so I won't go, I'll stay home with you and keep watch~"

Shen Yu didn't understand any of this and asked her again, "So when is the Christmas present for you?"

She winked and said, "It's all right, Santa used to deliver presents at night, he'd ride his electric bike with a big sack on his shoulder with as many presents as a girl wanted and deliver them quietly to her room while they slept."

Shen Yu gave her a blank stare, isn't Father Christmas riding a horse, isn't he a majestic horse, who's Santa fucking rides an electric car?

It was a little after two o'clock in the afternoon when Li Xiang stayed at home to work on his own and Shen Yu had to go to school on his motorbike.

Before leaving the house, he locked the door to his room and told Li Xiang that his room didn't need to be decorated.

Li Xiang nodded her head in agreement, in fact, she had already guessed that Shen Yu's gift for her was ready and was now hidden in her room, she was not in a hurry to peek, but she was still curious about what Shen Yu would give her.

Shen Yu took his laptop with him when he went to class this afternoon.

During class, he was in his seat tapping away at the code, and Ke Liangji looked at him curiously twice: "What are you programming ...... Merry Christmas? Making a greeting card?"

"Just get it."

"It doesn't look casual at all! Damn, where did you download these effects from, they're pretty cool! It must be for Li Xiang, right?"

"I ...... she said for me to do it, you think I want to?"

Ke Liangji suddenly understood and said, " Shen Yu, we are so good, you have to help me out, when you finish your greeting card, send me a copy to use."

"Do it yourself!"

Shen Yu said, "You didn't get a present from Yage?"

"The iPhone."

"So what did she send you?"

"Big mouth chanting."

"......"