I almost touched the moon

Chapter 309 It's Already Late

Four months later, on February 2, the Freestyle Skiing and Snowboarding World Championships.

The World Championships were held in Levi, Finland. The weather was fine on the night of the opening ceremony, with dazzling auroras dancing on the skyline. Under the purple, blue and green auroras, Cheng Che, wearing a white ski suit and holding the national flag in both hands, walked at the front.

Wen Song vaguely remembered that when he was not the flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the World Championships seven years ago, she was indignant for a long time. She angrily accused the leader of their national team of having no vision and choosing a flag bearer who was far inferior to Cheng Che in both appearance and figure.

At that time, Cheng Che smiled and comforted her, saying to her: "But his results are better than mine. He won the gold medal in the Aerials World Championships and the silver medal in the Winter Olympics. These competitions were my first time participating."

At that time, she saw the hidden loss and regret in Cheng Che's smiling eyes.

Seven years later, Cheng Che has won two Winter Olympic gold medals in slopestyle, three World Championship gold medals, and one World Championship gold medal in obstacle pursuit. He is truly the most outstanding freestyle skier in China. It is only natural that he will be the flag bearer at the opening ceremony.

Wen Song was sitting in the audience and waved to Cheng Che. He also saw her and smiled brightly at her seat, which was captured by the camera and displayed on the big screen.

She took Cece out of the cat bag as well, pointed at the person on the screen and said, "Cece, what a joke! What's the big deal, Papa? What's the big deal, Papa?"

(Cece, look! That's Dad. Say hello to him. Dad is super handsome, right?)

"Handsome." Zhang Yue nodded and said, "How come he doesn't age?"

"Because I don't like him anymore because he's old, he doesn't dare." Wen Song joked, and then said to her, "Pegrret is also the flag bearer of the Swiss team, just wait and see."

"I'm not here to see him..." Zhang Yue muttered unhappily, "I'm here to see my brother-in-law."

As he spoke, he stroked Cece's fur, rubbed its belly and said, "Why is it so thin? Don't you and Cheng Che give it food?"

"It weighs 12 kilograms!" Wen Song protested. "The doctor said it needs to lose weight! Otherwise, it will be as fat as your Cookie. At 15 kilograms, is it still a cat?"

The opening ceremony of the World Championships was not that grand. The athletes could leave after entering the venue. Cheng Che didn't even change his clothes. He ran to the audience and sat in the empty seat next to Wen Song.

"Wife." Cheng Che leaned against her and turned his head to kiss her cheek. "How is it? Doesn't it look good?"

"Looks good." Wen Song smiled and kissed him, looking at his clothes and said, "Your clothes this time are good, very nice and simple. Unlike before, the tacky bright red suit, my grandpa wouldn't wear that kind of clothes."

"Actually...it was originally a bright red ski suit." Cheng Che lowered his voice and said, "But I thought it was too ugly, so I asked someone to redesign it. Director Xu didn't care about that. He said it was fine as long as we liked it."

Wen Song carefully observed his ski suit again and found that although it was a pure white design at first glance, the cuffs and collar were hand-embroidered with silver-white auspicious cloud patterns, which was quite Chinese in style.

"It's great." Zhang Yue also turned his head and praised, "I saw in the news before that your deputy director surnamed Sun was arrested for corruption. Song Song told me that idiot died a good death."

Cheng Che also smiled and said, "Yes, it was about two years ago. Later, Director Xu took over his position and has been taking good care of me."

Wen Song listened to Cheng Che's words, smiled without saying anything, leaned his head on his shoulder and said: "That's great, I don't need to hire someone to assassinate him."

"Don't talk nonsense." Cheng Che lowered his head and kissed her, "You become more childish as you grow older."

He picked up Cece again, rubbed her face against his, and said, "My dear daughter, do you miss your daddy? Mommy must be very tired holding you all the time, so you have to lose weight."

Zhang Yue clicked his tongue twice, shook his head and said, "I can't bear to watch this anymore. You're already an old married couple, but you're still so clingy. You two should leave quickly and go back. Don't stay here. It makes me uncomfortable to watch you."

Wen Song smiled and asked Cheng Che: "Where is Pegrret? Why hasn't he come yet?"

"He was just called away by Evan. I don't know what he's doing." Cheng Che replied, "He should be here soon."

As soon as they finished speaking, they heard a familiar male voice, "Shirley!"

Zhang Yue turned around and looked at the person who came. It was indeed Pegrret. He waved and said, "Hi."

Pegrret walked up to Zhang Yue as if no one was around, held her in his arms and kissed her passionately, and whispered vaguely, "I miss you so much."

Wen Song knew that Pegrret was a veteran in the love field, but the Swiss are relatively reserved. She never thought that he and Zhang Yue would kiss right in front of them in the audience.

She looked at Cheng Che awkwardly, blinked and said, “Do you usually play so big?”

"Honey, do you want to go to Red Bull's Nine Knights with me next time?" Cheng Che asked with a smile, "You'll know once you go."

"It seems you are very experienced." Wen Song said unhappily, "I don't know who told me before that such occasions are disguised social events. I have no interest in them, so I never go every time I am invited."

"I haven't been there!" Cheng Che denied immediately.

Seeing Wen Song's suspicious expression again, he could only pat the man who was hugging Zhang Yue and pulling each other in an ambiguous way, looking at him for help and saying: "Pegrret, please, help me testify, I really have never been to the Nine Knights once, right?"

Pegrret also smiled, looking at Cheng Che's expression of seeking help, and seeing Wen Song's half-smile, he said ambiguously: "Oh... Maybe, I forgot. You know, my memory is not very good."

Wen Song immediately understood and said, "Okay, so it's hard for me to believe your one-sided statement."

Cheng Che immediately hugged Wen Song tightly and said coquettishly: "You can't not believe me, I am your most beloved husband, how can you not believe me."

Zhang Yue heard them speaking German and turned away unhappily, "Say something I can understand, hate you."

(Say something I can understand, I hate you)

Wen Song was about to hold Zhang Yue's arm and say something nice, but Pegrret put his arm around her and said, "I'm sorry honey, don't watch the boring show, let's go, I'll take you somewhere interesting."

(I was wrong, baby, stop watching this boring show, let's go, I'll take you to an interesting place)

After that, she and Zhang Yue walked away hand in hand. Before leaving, Zhang Yue even mouthed something to Wen Song, and Wen Song saw clearly that what she said was, "have a good evening."

She rolled her eyes unhappily and said to Cheng Che, "Shall we go too?"

"Okay."

Cheng Che put Cece back into the cat bag and carried her on his shoulder. He took Wen Song's hand and said, "Honey, is there anywhere you want to go?"

“I want to see the Northern Lights.”

Wen Song flipped through the photo album on her phone and clicked on one of the photos. The time showed that it was taken on the autumnal equinox eight years ago, when she and Cheng Che had just started dating. The background was the forest outside Levi, and the aurora that night was as gorgeous as it was today.

"But you have to prepare for the competition tomorrow, so forget it and wait until you finish the competition."

"We can't let it go." Cheng Che took her hand and quickly left the audience. "We said before that we would come back after winning the Winter Olympics. We are already late for taking pictures in the same place."

More than half an hour later, they followed their memory and came to the forest where they had watched the aurora before. As midnight approached, the aurora became more active, and the colorful light illuminated the night like dusk.

"Over the years, I have seen many auroras by myself." Cheng Che hugged Wen Song and whispered in her ear, "Every time I see the aurora, I think of you. Songsong, we are late."

"Yes." Wen Song nodded and said, "It's a long time late..."

"It's not too late."

Cheng Che lowered his head, hugged her and kissed her, and his tongue entered her mouth, entangled with hers. Her mouth was filled with the sweetness of orange juice and a hint of mint, which was the taste he was most familiar with.

At this moment, the surroundings were extremely quiet, and the only sounds they could hear were the wind blowing through the branches, the sound of snow melting, and each other's heartbeats. And, not so timely, the sound of Cece snoring as she lay in the cat bag and slept soundly.

The snoring broke the romantic and quiet atmosphere. Wen Song smiled, stood on tiptoe and kissed Cheng Che on the cheek, "Ache, I love you."

Cheng Che kissed her eyes tenderly and said to her, "I know, I know you have always loved me. Songsong, thank you."

Wen Song pretended not to know what he really meant and said with a smile: "Why thank me? It's not the first day you knew I love you."

"It's not because of this." Cheng Che smiled and hugged her in his arms. "You know why. I only found out from my grandfather when I returned to Hangzhou during the New Year. Honey, you should have told me. I didn't know. You've done so much for me."

Wen Song smiled easily, shook his head and said, "I didn't do anything. If you must thank someone, you should thank my grandfather."

"Yes, I am very grateful." Cheng Che said half-jokingly, "When I went to my grandmother's house last month, I played mahjong with my grandparents and lost half a year's salary."

"You only lost that little?" Wen Song also joked, "I thought you lost at least a year's salary."

"Actually, it's almost the same..." Cheng Che put his arm around Wen Song's waist and said coquettishly, "I'm penniless now, and I can only rely on my wife to support me."

"Let's sell it." Wen Song pointed at the cat bag on Cheng Che's right shoulder and said, "The price of pork has increased recently, so it should be able to sell for a lot of money."

Cheng Che immediately hugged Cece in his arms, covered its ears and said, "Don't listen, don't listen, mom is talking nonsense, Cece can't hear it."

Then she scolded Wen Song: "Wife! Are you my biological mother? How can you say such things? Cece will be very sad if she hears it."

"It's okay. It's not good at Chinese and doesn't understand what you mean." Wen Song looked at this scene with an exceptionally bright smile. He was so happy that even tears flashed in his eyes.

Cheng Che noticed her change, walked up to her and kissed her eyes, touched Wen Song's head and said, "I will always be with you and Cece, and our family will never be separated. It is very effective to make a wish under the aurora, so you must believe me."

"What was your last wish?" Wen Song asked, "Was it to win the Winter Olympics?"

"No." Cheng Che shook his head and said, "My wish is the same. I hope to be with you forever and never be apart."

"what about now?"

"Now..." Cheng Che said, hugging Wen Song with one hand and Cece with the other, "Of course it has been realized."

After that, he took out his cell phone and took a selfie.

The background is Levi's forest. They stand under the bright aurora. Their appearance has hardly changed compared to eight years ago, except that their smiles are happier and sweeter, and there is a cat in their arms.