Chapter 99, The End of the Year
The buckwheat noodles are made from scratch, and then pulled by hand.

Even so, noodles are still noodles, and the way to eat them is still to cook them in a pot.

Taste plate.

"I know that soba noodles are difficult to make..."

"General trouble."

"…But let's forget it next time. Do you know how to make stewed noodles?"

"know a little."

So that means I can do it?
Zhuo thought so.

After finishing the last of the pressed soba noodles, Utsunomiya Shuo burped loudly. Then he got up and went to the kitchen to get two cans of iced cola, opened the pull tab of one of them and took a sip, then put the other one next to Zero.

This time there are no water droplets on the surface of the Coke can, because the temperature of the refrigerator's fresh-keeping layer is not much lower than the indoor temperature, and liquefaction will not occur.

Doodle.

The cell phone rings.

Utsunomiya Shuo has always used the default ringtone of his mobile phone and has never changed it.

pick up.

"Handsome boy~" A familiar yet unfamiliar female voice came from the other end of the phone, the voice was very steady.

Zhuo turned his head and looked at Ling.

With her hearing, she could tell who was on the other end of the phone.

The two looked at each other for a few seconds.

Zhuo turned back expressionlessly and asked into the phone.

"Are you calling me?"

"of course."

Even though what Su Enxi said was natural, he still felt awkward.

"What's wrong."

Zhuo asked.

"Sanwu is at your place, let her answer the phone, thank you handsome boy."

The person on the other end of the phone said.

"Why don't you just call her?"

Zhuo Hui said.

He is already considering whether to block this phone number.

But then I thought about Su Enxi's ability, it would not be a big deal to call from a different phone number. She could even ask the telecommunications company to ignore the blacklist and continue calling.

So forget it.

"You can also just turn on the hands-free mode~" No one on the other end of the phone answered his question.

and,

The voice is so artificial.

Utsunomiya Shuo thought for a moment and handed the phone to Ling. Ling looked at him, blinked, and then took it.

Forget about turning on the speakerphone. After all, it’s someone else’s business. Even if Su Enxi called her on her phone, it’s between them.

Eavesdropping is not good.

Utsunomiya Shuo stretched, reached out for the Coke on the coffee table, looked at the deep night outside the window, and prepared to stare in that direction in a daze, and then go to bed after Zero finished his call.

drop.

A prompt sound came from the desktop.

Zhuo turned her head and saw that the phone had been placed on the table by Ling. She sat back on the sofa, some distance away from the phone.

The phone is on speakerphone.

"Happy New Year, Sanwuniu."

Su Enxi on the other end of the phone spoke first. It seemed that she had expected that the person answering the phone had changed to Zero.

Hearing Su Enxi's words on the speakerphone, Zhuo stretched his neck to check the time on the upper right corner of his phone.

11:32
It’s not the next day yet.

There are still 28 minutes left.

"What's wrong."

Zero said calmly.

"My plans have changed. I have to go to Los Angeles. You can go to the karaoke with Long Legs and his new boyfriend this weekend."

Su Enxi said on the other end of the phone.

The amount of information is a bit large.

"I see."

Zero responded lukewarmly.

After a second, Zero added calmly, "I have something to do, too."

After I picked up the phone, the person on the other end answered the call immediately without any pause, as if they were waiting for this sentence.

"I know~~" He deliberately prolonged the ending tone, making him sound like an old hermaphrodite.

Very professional.

Then Zero hung up the phone without saying a word.

Very straightforward.

The phone slid across the tabletop and landed in front of Yutsunomiya Shuo, not too far from the center, and the force was very cleverly controlled. Yutsunomiya Shuo picked up the phone, drank Coke with one hand, and used the thumb of the other hand to tap the numeric keypad below the phone.

The room fell silent again.

Utsunomiya Zhuo did not ask Su Enxi what the purpose of this call was, and the call was made to his mobile phone.

Because if Zero wants to say something, he will tell him.

after awhile.

as predicted.

"I blocked her number."

Zero said.

"I see." Zhuo nodded and asked casually, "When did it happen?"

"On Christmas Day." Ling held the Coke can in both hands, his eyes fixed on the bottle mouth.

"so."

Did something happen on Christmas Day?

he does not know.

But it doesn't matter, blacklisting is every woman's specialty, and they will block people if they don't agree with them. Now it seems that Zero is no exception.

It's getting late.

In other words, the first day of the second year is almost here.

2007 1 Month 1 Day.

New Year.

“Want to watch the sunrise on New Year’s Day?”

Zero asked suddenly for no reason.

Zhuo was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that he had "hinted" Ling to spend the remaining days together. Although his purpose was to let Ling continue to feed him, she seemed to have thought of something else. For example, spending the New Year together.

“I prefer sunsets to sunrises.”

"Because you can't get up in the morning?"

“Because I can’t get up in the morning.”

Zhuo admitted this frankly.

Praying at the first light of the new year is said to bring good luck, especially when the sun rises in front of you. Many people head to the mountains or the seaside to wait for the sun to rise and start a new year.

Oh my god, how early I have to get up!

Might as well just kill me.

In Neon, watching the Red and White Songs Contest on TV, leisurely eating soba noodles, and waiting for the New Year to come is the norm for almost every Neon person.

He was like this when he was in his hometown.

Today seems to be an exception.

First, there was no TV in Zhuo’s cabin.

Second, the people next to him were not his family members, but hardworking breeders.

"Time flies. How come I'm already one year older in a flash?"

Maybe this sentence was too abrupt coming from a high school student, so Zero looked at him and said.

"I should say I've grown a year older."

"Am I a child?"

Although I complain like this, but if I think about it carefully, in front of Zero, I am really no different from a child.

That being said, how did I survive before?
I am so tenacious.

If it were a year ago, Zhuo would never have dreamed that there would be a beautiful girl at home to cook for him.

And this person is still zero.

So dreamy.

"...In short, it's been really hard for you this year."

After all, it is the end of the year, and I have to express my gratitude for your care in 2001.

Zhuo faced him and said this with his head down.

Ling didn't look at him, but lowered his head slightly and muttered "It's not hard" in a low voice.

It would be a lie to say that it wasn't hard. Zhuo knew how useless he was. Fortunately, Ling didn't point it out, otherwise he would have had a bad New Year.

It will affect your mood in the second year.

But she really didn't seem to find it hard to take care of Zhuo, and she always had a lukewarm attitude. It didn't seem like she hated him.

　Thanks to the good names, the bad things took my brother’s two monthly tickets.

　　Thanks to brother Bancheng Tiansha for the monthly ticket.

　　Thanks to Brother Lalusha for the monthly ticket.

　　Thanks to Brother Guang Niangniang for the monthly ticket.

　　Thanks to brothers Liu Fengyun and Haijian for their monthly tickets.

　　Thanks to brother 20210301106550811912 for the two monthly tickets.

　　Thanks to Brother Gahilde for the monthly ticket.

　　thank.

　　Thanks to brother Aspirin Effervescent Tablets for the 100-point reward.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)