He sat on the sofa, switched the TV station with the remote control, and listened to the sound from the bathroom. After a while, Chi Duoduo ran out after taking a shower, with a dry towel on his head.
When he ran to Yu Chu's side, he wanted to throw off his slippers and get on the sofa, but Xie Xingmu, who was chased out, grabbed the back collar and said, "Let's go, go to bed."
This action of grabbing the back collar was so familiar, it made Yu Chu, who was eating a fruit platter, give up.
Chi Duoduo was carried up in the air like a chick, still pleading: "Uncle, let me play with Xiao Chu for a while."
"No, you have to go to kindergarten tomorrow." Xie Xingmu held him in his arms, and walked towards the children's room coldly.
Chi Duoduo's laughter came from the children's room, as well as the soft hum of the hair dryer. After a while, only Xie Xingmu's deep and gentle whispers remained.
"... the little prince sat on the roof, looking at the stars in the sky, thinking in his heart, that flower will bloom tomorrow, it must be the most beautiful flower, more beautiful than the stars in the sky..."
Yu Chu turned off the TV sound to the minimum, and carefully caught Xie Xingmu's intermittent voice.
"What does that flower look like?" Chi Duoduo's voice was also very quiet.
Xie Xingmu said: "It's red, with pink gold edges, and white blue light."
"What does the pink gold border look like? What does the white blue light look like?" Chi Duoduo asked.
Xie Xingmu paused, and explained: "That's the one, it looks pink, but it turns golden again from another angle, it looks like it's shining blue, and the base is white again."
"... I can't think of it, uncle." Chi Duoduo said in confusion.
"Don't think about it if you can't think of it. Anyway, you just need to know that it is the most beautiful flower in the world."
"Okay, uncle, is Xiao Chu the cat you gave me?"
"...Of course not! What are you talking about? Go to bed."
Yu Chu leaned on the back of the sofa chair and couldn't help showing a smile.
After putting Chi Duoduo to sleep, Xie Xingmu tucked him in the quilt, dimmed the bedside lamp, leaned over and kissed him lightly on the forehead, tiptoed out of the children's room, and closed the door.
When he turned around, seeing Yu Chu looking at him with a half-smile, he motioned to the indoor stairs and asked, "Want to have a drink on the rooftop?"
have a drink? Can. Yu Chu stood up.
"You go up first, I'll bring you the drink." Xie Xingmu walked towards the kitchen refrigerator.
In the afternoon, Yu Chu had already been led down to the rooftop by Chi Duoduo, and then walked up the indoor stairs.
The rooftop is very large, covered by a glass dome. On one side is the fitness area, with an infinity pool and fitness equipment, and on the other side is the leisure area. The sun room is covered with long plush carpets, and a few cushions are thrown everywhere.
As soon as Yu Chu sat down on the carpet, Xie Xingmu went up to the rooftop. He held a tray in his hand and placed it on the low table beside Yu Chu. There were several cans of beer on the tray, and a huge transparent cup filled with orange-yellow liquid.
"I made my own cocktail, try it." Xie Xingmu sat cross-legged across from him, pushed the glass of orange-yellow liquid in front of him, opened the can of beer himself, and took a sip.
"Such a big cocktail." Yu Chu exclaimed.
He had seen this cup just now. It was placed on the dining table to hold water, and it could fill three to four cups.
"It's okay, let's drink, anyway, I'm at home, I'll fall asleep when I'm drunk." Xie Xingmu said.
That's right, anyway, I haven't had a drink for a long time, so I can have a drink tonight. Yu Chu picked up the big fat cup with both hands, and took a sip carefully. Sweet and sour, the taste is not bad, but there is no alcohol taste at all.
He smacked his lips and asked uncertainly, "Is this the cocktail you made?"
Xie Xingmu said, "Yes."
"Then why is there no smell of wine?" Yu Chu put it under his nose and smelled it again.
A strong fruity aroma wafted into the nostrils, and it did not have the slightest smell of alcohol. It was clearly a glass of freshly squeezed fruit juice, no matter what kind of cocktail it was.
Xie Xingmu met his accusing eyes, paused, stretched out the beer can in his hand, poured a small amount into his glass, and said, "This time it's a cocktail, drink it."
Yu Chu angrily handed him the juice and said, "You drink this cocktail, I'll drink beer."
Xie Xingmu didn't answer, and comforted him: "Drink this glass of cocktail. If you can drink well and feel good after drinking, I'll give you another beer."
I'm going to tell you how much you drink, this big glass of juice will make your stomach feel full, how can you drink beer.
Xie Xingmu saw that he was holding the juice and said nothing, "What are you doing making a bad face? You're like an alcoholic, you can't even satisfy you with cocktails. How old are you now? You're only about 10 years older than Duo, right? Do you know how much alcohol harms minors? Okay, you are an adult, but how long have you been an adult—”
"Shut up!" Yu Chu also sat down the glass of juice unbearably, splashing a few drops of orange juice on the table, he said with a sullen face, "Xie Xingmu, why are you so wordy?"
In Xingyuan Island, when Xie Xingmu was his bodyguard, he felt that this person had a lot of things to do. For example, before sitting on the beach, he must wipe off the stones. You can’t sit by the water, it’s cold, you can’t sit in the gravel, and the heat is too hot. It's too heavy, but I didn't expect that this person was not my bodyguard, the mother-in-law became more and more energetic.
Seeing him fighting cleanly, even if he didn't understand, he also felt that he had a cold and reticent appearance, but he was actually deceived by appearances.
"Am I being long-winded?" Xie Xingmu sat higher than him, looking down at him condescendingly, "I am your bodyguard, and I will take care of your daily life and out-of-the-ordinary behavior."
"You are no longer my bodyguard, let alone a former bodyguard, that is fake. You pretended to be my bodyguard in order to complete the mission." Yu Chu said.
"I am the captain of the criminal investigation team. You are an important witness in a serious case we are currently in charge of. Before the case is over, I also have the right to control your daily life and various outrageous behaviors."
Yu Chu stared at him and said, "I just want to drink some wine."
"I gave you the wine." Xie Xingmu raised his chin at the large glass of juice, "A cocktail that is close to 1000ML."
Yu Chu laughed back angrily: "A little beer is a cocktail, okay, okay, a cocktail." After speaking, he stood up, picked up the big glass of juice, and under Xie Xingmu's gaze, he quickly walked to the boundless glass on the other side of the roof. By the swimming pool, they all fell into it with a splash.
He shook the glass and emptied the last bit of juice, then turned around and said to Xie Xingmu, "Okay, now you have a pool of cocktails."
Xie Xingmu silently watched him walk back, tapped open a can of beer and handed it over, Yu Chu sat down opposite him, took it and took a long gulp.
"You used to drink two glasses of beer to get drunk." Xie Xingmu's voice sounded a little helpless.
Yu Chu said impatiently: "That was before, let alone I don't remember."
"Even if you don't want to drink juice, you can give it to me. It's such a waste, and the water in that pool was changed only yesterday, and it will be changed tomorrow..."
"I didn't pour juice, I poured cocktails." Yu Chu took another sip of beer coldly.
The two stopped talking, and both looked up at the night sky. The lights of the city were shining, and the night sky looked a little gray, with a few shining stars hanging in it.
"Have you seen the stars on Xingyuan Island?" Xie Xingmu said suddenly, "The stars on Xingyuan Island are so beautiful, each one seems to fall into his arms."
After a while, Yu Chu replied sullenly: "No, I don't like Xingyuan Island."
"Yu Shiqing is being held in the detention center, waiting for the trial. If you want to see him, I will find a way for you." Xie Xingmu said.
Yu Chu said: "I don't like Xingyuan Island, and I don't want to see Yu Shiqing."
"En." Xie Xingmu nodded in understanding, and said: "Xingyuan Island was seized, and some items that could be used as evidence were sent back to the bureau. I have already ordered them to bring back your personal items."
Yu Chu said: "I don't have any personal items." After thinking about it, he added: "If you find a notebook, you can bring it to me."
"Notebook?" Xie Xingmu asked.
Yu Chu turned the beer can in his hand and said, "That's something I recorded before, and it's of no use to you."
"Understood." Xie Xingmu suddenly reached out to pat him on the shoulder, then retracted it.
The two began to drink in silence, and quickly drank the few cans of beer. Yu Chu lay on the long-haired carpet with a cloth cushion under his head, and stretched out his feet to kick Xie Xingmu, who was also half lying beside him: "Go , get some more beer."
"It's almost there, you've already drank three cans." Xie Xingmu said.
Yu Chu kicked his hard thigh hard: "Go, go."
Xie Xingmu sighed softly, and said in a gentle tone: "It's cold at night, drinking too much beer is bad for the stomach."
Yu Chu said: "Then change to another wine." Seeing that Xie Xingmu didn't move, he kicked him a few more times, "Go quickly."
Xie Xingmu turned his head to look at him, and said, "That's okay, if you're drunk, don't go crazy."
"No, let's go."
Yu Chu wanted to say that he was often drunk, but he was never drunk. After thinking about it, he felt that this sentence would reveal the fact that he was not good at drinking, so he swallowed it in time.
Xie Xingmu stood up and walked downstairs. Yu Chu watched his tall back disappear at the stairs before lying on his back on the carpet, lazily squinting his eyes at the sky.
"... The little bird flies to the sky, the dandelion floats in the wind, I carry my luggage, no matter how far away, it is always in the eyes of my mother..."
He gently hummed a nursery rhyme from his childhood, and when he was halfway through the humming, he slowly stopped his voice.
It's been a long time since he was so relaxed and comfortable, and he hasn't hummed this song for a long time. The last time was a few years ago.
What was the reason for that time? It seems that he has finally obtained a permit to live in Yunding, and can escape from the endless life in the deep sea... It's just that he didn't expect that although there is no need to worry about food and clothing in Yunding, it is still full of dangers.
However, it is still life-threatening to travel here, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of Yu Chu's mouth.
"What are you looking at? Are you dumbfounded?" While thinking wildly, Xie Xingmu's voice suddenly rang in his ears.
Yu Chu turned to look at him, and saw that the man had already sat down beside him, and put a bottle of red wine and two tall transparent wine glasses on the low table.
"I was thinking about what kind of wine you want to serve." Seeing him opening the red wine cork with a corkscrew, Yu Chu felt better immediately.
Xie Xingmu turned the corkscrew, and said in his mouth: "I bought this wine at a winery when I went to France on vacation last year. It tastes very good and the alcohol content is not high. I can let you try it. The wine from that winery The wine is very good, and the scenery of the vineyard is also beautiful. I took Duoduo there, and the person disappeared in a blink of an eye. It was very hard to find me. In the end, someone hid behind the big wooden barrel in the wine cellar and was stealing what was poured by others. liquor… "
Hearing his subwoofer-like chatter, Yu Chu looked at his well-defined profile under the night sky, suddenly lifted her foot, put it on his thigh, and then slowly slid up and down on his leg.
The words from Xie Xingmu's mouth disappeared suddenly, and his movements also stopped. When Yu Chu's feet started to move towards the middle, he suddenly stretched out his right hand to choke his ankle, and then lightly threw it aside, throwing his foot open.
"Don't mess around," he said.
Yu Chu didn't make a sound, just lay on his back like that and watched Xie Xingmu open the wine bottle, poured wine into two wine glasses, pushed one to his side, picked up the other, and sniffed lightly under his nose .
Yu Chu didn't bother with the glass of wine, but continued in silence. He sat up halfway, put his hands behind his back, put his feet on Xie Xingmu's thighs, and successfully stepped on a certain part before he grabbed his ankle.
He fixed his eyes on Xie Xingmu, not letting go of every change in his expression, and stepped on his feet gently.
Xie Xingmu didn't grab his ankle this time, he just stared at the wine glass in front of him, his side face was very tight, his chin stretched out an arc from his Adam's apple.
Yu Chu felt that the touch under his feet began to become hard, and a mischievous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He also didn't know his purpose of doing this, it seemed that he just wanted to see Xie Xingmu lose his composure.
"Not bad, very informative." His voice was very soft, with obvious bewitchment.
Xie Xingmu slowly turned his head to look at him, his face was turned away from the light, and the outline became more distinct. In those deep and dark eyes, apart from the indifference that Yu Chu was always familiar with, there were also some emotions that he couldn't understand.
This kind of Xie Xingmu was just like when they were not familiar with each other when they were on Xingyuan Island. Yu Chu was startled, and stopped the movement of his feet.
Suddenly the world turned upside down, and in the blink of an eye, he was already lying on the carpet, with Xie Xingmu's magnified face above him.
Xie Xingmu put his hands next to his ears, with his upper body covering Yu Chu, he lowered his head and asked word by word: "When did you learn these tricks?"
His voice was very low, and the distance was very close, and the heat was on Yu Chu's neck. Yu Chu heard the hidden anger from his words, and subconsciously replied: "I learned it before."
"Yu Shiqing asked you to learn it?" Xie Xingmu gritted his teeth and asked.
Yu Chu asked blankly, "Yu Shiqing?"
Xie Xingmu stared at him for a few more seconds, exuding a fierce aura all over his body, Yu Chu couldn't help feeling a sense of fear of being held down by a large beast, and lay motionless.
"Are you familiar with this set?" Xie Xingmu asked again.
Yu Chu subconsciously sensed the danger, and hurriedly shook her head: "I'm not familiar with it, I only have theory, and I haven't practiced it before."
When he had just grown into a teenager, from the eyes of others who coveted or admired him, he knew that he was born with a good appearance and knew how to use his appearance to achieve his goals. But he knows how to protect himself better, and keeps an ambiguous distance with others, and has never blatantly teased others like this.
So what he said was all the truth, only theory, and no one had interested him in practicing it. I don't know if it was the night and the alcohol that made him relax his vigilance, or whether Xie Xingmu's innocuous behavior made him ignore that this person was actually very threatening in his bones, and he actually made a move to tease this person.
Xie Xingmu looked down at him with heavy eyes, as if he was checking whether what he said was the truth. After a while, he turned over and sat down, picked up the red wine glass in front of him and took a sip, all the fierce aura on his body faded away, as if nothing had happened.
Yu Chu lay on the ground for a while, then slowly got up, mumbling: "Crazy."
For the rest of the time, the two of them didn't talk, they just drank slowly, and before they knew it, the large bottle of red wine was drunk.
Xie Xingmu looked at the lights in the distance, and suddenly felt his shoulders sink, and a soft body leaned forward.
He thought that Yu Chu was repeating his old tricks, and wanted to use some tricks to provoke him, so he couldn't help but frowned, and turned to look at the person over his shoulder. As a result, with such a slight movement, the person on his shoulders slid down and fell into his arms.
Under the lamplight and starlight, the person in his arms had already fallen asleep, his fair face was glowing pink, his lips were slightly parted, revealing a small pink tip of his tongue. Long eyelashes hang down on the lower eyelids, forming a dark and thick arc.
After staring at Yu Chu for a moment, Xie Xingmu suddenly curled his lips into a smile, and said, "Sure enough, I won't be drunk."