Chapter 62: I Want to Go Home! (1/2)

Eh?

If it wasn’t because he couldn’t eat spicy food, then what was that expression just now?

Tang Doudou was pushed aside by Baili Yu. As he looked at the mass of fiery red inside the pot, Baili Yu’s expression was as if he was facing a formidable enemy!

Actually, it didn’t smell half bad. Baili Yu could only find solace in this.

He raised his chopsticks.

Just as he was about to use his chopsticks, Tang Doudou, who was standing by the window, suddenly shouted, “Wow! It’s snowing!”

Hearing that, Baili Yu lowered his chopsticks and looked towards the window. The only thing he saw was snow flowing down, nearly indistinguishable from flowers.

It’s snowing?

“Wow! It’s so beautiful!” Tang Doudou leaned on the windowsill and extended her hand to catch the falling snowflakes, her eyes filled with little stars. Although she had gone to see snow a few times during the modern era, she had only seen this kind of dreamlike snowfall scene – where snow drifted alongside plum blossom petals – in games and had never witnessed it in person before.

This kind of beauty could make a person forget everything.

Between heaven and earth there was only a vast expanse of whiteness, so beautiful that it took one’s breath away.

Tang Doudou, unable to endure it any longer, rushed out of the room. Standing in the yard, she looked up at the falling snow, her face flushed with excitement.

She shouted, “Ay, big evil spirit! Come out! Let’s look at the snow together, it’s so pretty!” towards Baili Yu, who was still in the room.

Big evil spirit?

She also called him this way that day at the Alliance Head Residence, didn’t she?

Baili Yu’s mouth hooked slightly in a trace of a smile. Reflected within his pupils was the sight of Tang Doudou running all around in the courtyard. It could be seen that she was truly happy.

But it was nothing but a snowfall. Unexpectedly, she’s quite easy to please.

“Ay, what are you dazing out for?” Tang Doudou blew off the snowflakes in her cupped hands, and yelled towards Baili Yu again: “I’m going over there to take a look! If you don’t want to look at the snow then just eat your fish hotpot!”

Tang Doudou ran off laughing as soon as the last word left her mouth.

Hearing the sounds of laughter getting further and further away, Baili Yu put down his chopsticks and folded his hands behind his back. If his memory was correct, then today was the Winter Solstice?

“Ye Chuan!”

Like a ghost, Ye Chuan flashed into the room. Smelling the fragrant scent of the hotpot, he couldn’t help but swallow his saliva. He looked at the hot pot seated beside Baili Yu. What was that? It smelled too good to be true! Even his saliva was dripping uncontrollably.

“Is today the Winter Solstice?” Baili Yu asked.

Ye Chuan unwillingly pried his eyes away from the hot pot and replied, “It is the Winter Solstice.”

“En. Did the Garden prepare the things for celebrating this holiday? If they have then get someone to move them all here. Afterwards, have Meng Yu make some food at the Plum Garden.” Baili Yu instructed, causing Ye Chuan to temporarily be confused at what he was trying to do. It should be known that this master of his never celebrated holidays. If he was happy, then every day would be a holiday. If he was unhappy, then years would pass without celebration.

However, since Master has spoken then as a subordinate he could only obey these orders. Such was the case when earlier he was suddenly told to find some hot pot. It was a good thing the Heng Xuan Chamber of Commerce extended over the entire country and collected quite a few odd marvels and strange treasures. It was only due to this, that he had managed to find something similar to that hot pot.

Soon after Ye Chuan left following orders, he came back with various items from the Plum Garden.

Afterwards, he removed the long tables from the wooden house, tidied up, and blocked the kitchen stove with a screen. Thinking of the small stove that Tang Doudou mentioned, Baili Yu ordered that the wooden house be carpeted then filled with several small stoves, a soft couch, fox fur, side tables…

In a flash, the quality of the wooden house increased by several levels. When Tang Doudou grew tired of playing and returned, her eyes nearly fell out of their sockets.

“You’re back? Come warm your hands.” A warm and lazy voice came from the soft couch. Baili Yu, who was holding a small and delicate warming stove in his hands, raised his eyebrows at the sight of Tang Doudou with snow on top of her head. “You shouldn’t run off when it’s snowing. If you catch a cold, you’ll be the one who suffers.”

Hearing his concerned tone as if he was gently rebuking a lover, Tang Doudou’s face which was already red from the cold became even redder [than the Soviet flag]. Feeling warmth rush from her heart, she pretended to be indifferent as she walked over and accepted the stove. “Are you planning to spend tonight here?”

Baili Yu didn’t answer but instead pointed beside him. “I just heard that it’s the Winter Solstice today. You were originally supposed to return to the Alliance Head Residence to gather with your friends. But considering how late it is, combined with the wind and snow, it’ll be hard getting there. So I ordered this to be set up. In any case, I’m also alone, so why not celebrate together?”

Because the lights in the room had been changed, the lighting in the room had become immeasurably brighter. Contrasting with the light, that seductive yao’s eyes glittered even more captivatingly. He looked at her just like that with some eager anticipation in his eyes.

Tang Doudou smacked her lips. What friends could she have at the Alliance Head Residence?

Although, today was the Winter Solstice? She was rather surprised. It was already the Winter Solstice! Doesn’t that mean that it was almost time for New Year’s?

Time passed so quickly. Before she transmigrated, it was spring in her era. When she transmigrated, it was winter. Now, in a blink of an eye, it was already the Winter Solstice…

“Alright ah. Baili gongzi is accompanying me to celebrate the Winter Solstice, that’s fantastic!” After Tang Doudou finished laughing, she took the stove and sat down beside him. Since she was an orphan and didn’t have many friendsT/N, much less a boyfriendT/N2, all of the holidays in her past life were celebrated alone. But the world is fickle. Never would she have thought that after transmigrating she would have such a handsome man to celebrate with. What else could she be dissatisfied with?

(TL: Like me) (TL2: Like me, but a girlfriend)(TLC: Lol, same~ Dw! Fellow anti-socials make up a strong united minority! :3)

Even though celebrating with only two people still felt kind of lonely, it was still better than celebrating alone.