Mi Yang packed up his things and went back to Cheng's house.
Cheng Ru came to pick him up in person, but she didn't expect the young master of the Bai family to come along. She smiled and said, "That's perfect. I sent a new bed to Yangyang. It's bigger than the previous one, so you two can sleep together without being crowded."
Mi Yang asked her about her business in the car, and whispered to her: "Aunt San, did you use the Internet to search after you went back? Is the Chengxintong easy to use?"
Cheng Ru said, "I did look for it. Someone actually called to ask about it and placed an order! But your uncle and the workers were so nervous, always afraid that they were scammers. Now that they received the advance payment, they can finally put their minds at ease."
Mi Yang was talking to her quietly, trying to give her some suggestions on online stores, asking Cheng Ru to move her store online. Now that this has just started, Cheng Ru happened to have done such an order and was quite interested. Mi Yang thought for a while and said, "You can apply to see if there is a corporate store, and then ask a photographer to take some professional photos, and try to make it look better."
Cheng Ru nodded and said, "Yes, I'll go back and ask them to assign someone from the factory to do this."
Bai Luochuan was texting someone on his phone and hardly stopped during the whole journey. Mi Yang noticed and asked him if he was busy. He immediately shook his head and said, "No, I'm just chatting with my cousin."
After arriving at Cheng's house, Mrs. Cheng had been waiting for them at the door early in the morning. When she saw them come in, she touched Mi Yang's little face and felt that he had gained weight. She smiled and said, "Not bad, it looks better."
Michelle and several children from the family also came over. Mi Yang, the eldest cousin, usually did a very good job. The children all liked him very much. When they saw him coming back, they all came over to greet him. Michelle stopped the others and tried to hold her brother's hand to take him to the living room. She brought him a plate of washed red dates and said, "Grandma said eating red dates can replenish blood."
Mi Yang ate one and touched her little head: "Well, you eat it too."
Mi Xue hadn't seen him for a while. When she saw Mi Yang, she became particularly clingy, following him everywhere like a little Tang cake. She didn't want to play any games, and would not go even if other kids called her. She only wanted her brother.
After dinner, Michelle still wanted to sleep with Mi Yang.
Old Madam Cheng said, "You are a grown-up girl now. Boys and girls are not allowed to sit at the same table as their six-year-old counterparts. You don't need your brother to sleep with you. Didn't grandma tell you about this yesterday? And there is also Brother Bai..."
Michelle misunderstood and immediately asked back, "Brother Bai is over six years old, so why can he let my brother sleep with him?"
Old Mrs. Cheng was amused by her question: "They, they are different."
Michelle whined and refused to leave, still asking, Bai Luochuan came over and said, "You go and do your work, I'll play with her."
Old Mrs. Cheng said with a smile, "Okay, I'll go check on those kids. They're also busy. If I'm not here for a while, they'll tear off the tiles on the roof."
Bai Luochuan took some small toys for Michelle to play with, most of which were bought at the last fair. There was a big bag of all kinds of things. He wanted to use the toys to get rid of her.
Michelle stood at the door, staring at the person making the bed inside, and whispered, "Brother..."
"Your brother is busy." Bai Luochuan stood aside, looking down at her, and waved his hand to let her go.
Michelle protested quietly: "Why can you sleep with my brother."
Bai Luochuan laughed and said, "Why? Because I can help, and I'm a man, understand?"
Michelle looked up at him and tried to raise her voice a little: "My grandma said that men and women are equal."
Bai Luochuan touched his chin, thought for a while and said to her: "We are equal only when we grow up. You are six years old now. Were you not allowed to go on the roller coaster last time? Really, the world outside is so cruel. Come on, take the things and share them with your friends. I have to work with your brother. You are in the way here."
Michelle looked past him to see her brother, raised her head and asked, "Brother! Am I in the way?"
"It's okay," Mi Yang turned around and handed her a vase, then bent down to talk to her. "Xiaoxue, can you help me? I just saw a lot of flowers blooming in the yard. Can you pick some for me and put them in there?"
Michelle's eyes lit up: "Fill another half bottle of water to grow flowers, right?"
Mi Yang smiled and nodded: "Yes."
The little girl went out happily holding the vase.
Mi Yang glanced at Bai Luochuan, with a smile still in his eyes: "Can you help me make the bed?"
The complaint that was about to come out of Bai Luochuan's mouth disappeared, and he immediately rolled up his sleeves and went over to work seriously.
Mi Yang felt that these two people were very similar. Michelle was young, so if he wanted her to go out, he could just tell her to do something. Master Bai's mental age was probably not much higher, especially after seeing Michelle, he drooped his eyes and looked unhappy, and he forgot about the things he was told to do when he got busy.
The bed that Cheng Ru sent was shorter than the previous one, but the carving was good, and the four bedposts were firmly inlaid, which looked very comfortable. The bed was remade, and the quilt was made of the cotton that was newly harvested this year. It was light and soft, and people lying on it felt like sleeping on clouds. After touching it, Mi Yang sighed: "It would definitely be more comfortable to sleep in winter. Now it feels soft with the mat between us."
Bai Luochuan said, "You like this? Then we can cover ourselves with this in winter. It's not difficult to get two quilts."
Mi Yang said: "In winter, I will go to high school in winter. I don't know what the new school has. I heard that it is a military-style management and it is quite strict."
Bai Luochuan knew something and whispered to him that it sounded like the teaching system was strict, but the food and accommodation were not bad. He thought for a while and said, "Our grades are similar, so we should both be assigned to the experimental class. When the time comes, we just need to apply for a double room from the school, just like before, don't worry."
Mi Yang was a little surprised: "The accommodation conditions are so good?"
Bai Luochuan said: "My mother said that I can apply for it, so let her do it."
The two of them were talking as they packed up. Mi Yang saw through the window that Mi Xue was carrying the vase back to the main room. The little girl had had a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder since she was young. The flowers were all closed at night and he had been looking for them for a long time but only found half-open ones. She must be dissatisfied and would probably wait until tomorrow to pick out the most beautiful one and put it in the vase before sending it to him.
After Bai Luochuan washed up, he yawned and lay down. He left a space for Mi Yang and urged him to come in so that he could put down the mosquito net. "Hurry up, mosquitoes will come in soon."
Mi Yang asked, "Were you bitten? Should I apply some medicine on you?"
Bai Luochuan frowned and said, "I don't want it. It smells too bad."
After Mi Yang came up, he lowered the mosquito net and stuffed it around to check if there were any mosquitoes. Master Bai impatiently turned off the light, turned over and pulled him to lie down, saying, "Hurry up, go to sleep, or your sister will come again."
Mi Yang lay there and blinked: "Hey? How can I fall asleep just like that..."
Bai Luochuan held him tightly and said, "Then tell me a story."
Mi Yang: “…”
Mi Yang: "How old are you? You are not as old as Xiaoxue. She doesn't even listen to people telling stories now."
Young Master Bai felt that he had done a good job by taking care of Cheng for a few days, and that coming to Cheng's house felt like a vacation. He insisted that Mi Yang tell him a story.
Mi Yang couldn't think of any story to tell, so he told a fairy tale but stuttered and made it all messed up, which made Bai Luochuan laugh for a while. So Mi Yang simply dug out a story about a telephone fraud case he had read in the newspaper before and put it together to tell him.
After saying this to the two of them, Mi Yang fell asleep first.
The moonlight outside the window was bright, and the room was not very dark. Bai Luochuan turned over and rested his head on his arms, then lay on his side and looked carefully at the face of the child next to him. He had watched the child grow up from childhood to adulthood, and he used to think that he had raised this child and that he was better than other children. Now he felt that he should continue to raise him in the future and raise him better than all the others.
Mi Yang put his hands on the bamboo mat pillow, sleeping soundly with his eyes closed. His long eyelashes were thick and dense, casting a small shadow. He didn't know whether it was the moonlight swaying or his slightly rising and falling breathing. After watching for a while, Bai Luochuan felt that his heart was swaying gently.
Young Master Bai reached out his hand and touched him gently, but the person did not wake up and fell asleep quietly. He looked at Mi Yang and smiled, then held the person in his arms and closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Mi Yang felt that his body was really healed. He had been fine before, and he had been eating a lot of nourishing food recently. As a result of the heavy nourishment, he had a dream that night.
Mi Yang has always been well-behaved, even in his dreams he follows the rules, but just because he is honest doesn't mean that another person is honest.
In his dream, he couldn't tell which Young Master Bai it was. He was teased by the two of them in turn. When he was at a loss what to do, he was blocked in a corner by the two men, one in front and one behind, forcing him to choose one.
Mi Yang was confused for a moment. He looked at this one, then at the other, but couldn't tell them apart - they were clearly the same person!
Master Bai saw that he was silent for a while, and his bad temper came up again. He approached him from the front, stared at him and sneered, "Are you so greedy? Do you want both of them?"
Young Master Bai behind him did not leave either. He was silent for a while, and the arm around his waist tightened. He said in a hoarse voice: "I can't do it alone, right? Just me, can't it be done?"
Mi Yang: “…”
He had never seen anyone jealous of himself in a dream, and so seriously!
The Young Master Bai in the dream was unreasonable as usual. He started to deal with him without saying a word. This time, he didn't interrogate them one by one. Both of them stayed and attacked him from the front and back. He did some particularly excessive things as if he was competing with them. He didn't stop for the whole night. It was like he was having an endurance competition with himself on Mi Yang.
When Mi Yang opened his eyes, he felt pain in his back and waist, as if he had been dragged out and beaten in the middle of the night.
He took a deep breath and first lifted up the hand that was around his waist and the leg that was pressing on his body. Bai Luochuan had a bad sleeping habit recently. He slept with his arms and legs spread out, which sometimes made him unable to breathe.
But today it was not just this little bit of weight that was pressing down on him. Mi Yang lay there in a daze for a moment, but he soon understood.
He tilted his head to look at Bai Luochuan, who was still fast asleep with no sign of waking up. Mi Yang got up stealthily and wanted to wash his underwear. As soon as he got up a little, Bai Luochuan hugged him from behind and asked in a nasal voice, "Where are you going?"
Mi Yang: “…”
Mi Yang grabbed his hand to prevent him from getting close, his face burning, and whispered: "Just, go wash up, why are you awake, aren't you running today?"
Bai Luochuan laughed, his breath spraying on his neck, and said lazily: "I don't want to run today."