When the dinner was served, Ye Qin was still hiding in the bathroom. He opened the door three to five minutes later and came out. His eyes were no longer red, and a few strands of wet hair hung on his forehead, as if he had just washed his face.
Cheng Feichi handed him the chopsticks, and he whispered "Thank you", his voice was still hoarse, and he didn't dare to lift his head, as if wishing he could find a hole in the ground to hide, making Cheng Feichi also inexplicably at a loss as to what to say to melt the Congealed air.
It was Ye Qin who let go of his hand just now. Like a rabbit waking up from a nightmare, he jumped up and ran into the bathroom to close the door, leaving Cheng Feichi standing alone in the living room, looking down at the hand he held, without moving for a long time.
At this moment, each of them returned to normal, but they could clearly feel that they were different from before. Even if there is only one door across, it is different from confrontation. The door panel in front of you was torn open a big hole, pasted with paper, covered with wood, and blocked with your body. The hole with jagged edges still exists, forcing you to stand. People on either side look at each other squarely.
The person on the left side of the door has a little bit of self-confidence, and he still can't get rid of his timidity in his actions. He keeps reminding himself to be rational, but he has no way to go to the sky, and he has no way to go down. The only way to find a safe destination is to go through this door.
The person on the right side of the door seemed to be in order and impeccable, but in fact he had already lost ground. Every movement and every word on the other side affected his emotions that had been stagnant for many years, and his numb heartbeat became loud again.
The cloud and mist lying between the two were blown away by the wind at this moment, and diluted to the thinnest state. As long as each of them took a few steps forward, they could see each other's face clearly.
"you… "
"you… "
The two spoke almost at the same time, and Ye Qin cleared his throat, trying to restore the hoarse voice: "You, you speak first."
Cheng Feichi didn't refuse. He pondered for a while, and just as he opened his lips to say something, the knock on the door rang again.
It was Cheng Feichi who opened the door, and when he came back, he had a pair of new slippers in his hand, walked around the table to Ye Qin, and put them at his feet: "Put them on."
Dinner and daily necessities were delivered twice by the kitchen and room service, fully complying with the hotel's operating norms. However, there is no rule left by the predecessors on how to pick up the interrupted words.
Yeqin stuffed his feet into cotton and linen slippers. These slippers were not disposable, and the comfort level was greatly improved, but he felt more relaxed than stepping on the floor with bare feet.
The two ate silently facing each other, as if they were looking for a buffer zone through this quiet way.
When the meal was coming to an end, Cheng Feichi said again: "Are you cold?"
"Ah?" Ye Qin, who was in a daze, sniffed again, "No... maybe."
After speaking, he sneezed loudly.
The house leak happened to rain overnight, and he was wounded and infected with a cold virus. Ye Qin couldn't be more mournful.
After taking the medicine after dinner, he thought over and over whether what Cheng Feichi was going to say just now was the same sentence, and for a while he thought it should be, and for a while he felt that there must be something else. Without a basis for judgment, he took a small iron spoon to scoop up water, took a sip of "yes" and another sip of "no", and so on.
Use the new cup that room service just delivered.
After repeating it several times without getting tired, the frustration was diluted, and the plain water that I usually didn't like to drink tasted sweet. Although the cup looks different from the one used by Cheng Feichi, at least it is a ceramic cup, not made of paper. It seems that he has become a frequent friend from Fang's guest, and he can walk sideways in this room with his chest up.
Unexpectedly, before the water was finished, the cup was taken away by Cheng Feichi: "It's cold, pour another cup."
Ye Qin's furtive fortune-telling was interrupted, and he was embarrassed to speak out. Cheng Feichi thought he wanted to drink something cold, so he took all the soda water in the refrigerator to the top of the kitchen cabinet and put it on the top of the kitchen cabinet. Ye Qin was less than 1.8 meters tall, and he couldn't reach it even with his hand raised.
After taking the cup refilled with warm water, Ye Qin lingered and sat beside Cheng Feichi who was reading a book on the sofa. Seeing that he didn't express any objection, he let him go, and leaned towards him lightly. I plugged in my earphones and used my mobile phone to watch the video of the program I hadn’t finished on the plane last time. After I sneezed, I realized that I had a cold, so I moved to the side, afraid of infecting the people around me.
He didn't know that all these small actions fell into the eyes of Cheng Feichi who was next to him.
From the corner of his eye, Cheng Feichi saw Ye Qin walking around in front of him like a bee, and then moved to the sofa in small steps. When he sat down, he seemed to be measuring the size, and precisely controlled the closest position within the social distance. After clicking on the video, I took a look at myself, afraid of being stolen, and after covering my nose and sneezing, I reluctantly moved a few inches to the side, thinking that this distance would prevent the cold virus from spreading. airborne.
After a while, I began to doze off. The cold medicine catalyzed the sleepiness, and my head shook from side to side bit by bit. This time Ye Qin managed to make it to his own appearance, saw himself shaking his legs on the ice while holding his hands, and even laughed a few times. Finally, unable to resist the heavy eyelids falling, he threw the phone on his lap, crooked on the ground. Fell asleep on the back.
Cheng Feichi next to him was "stained" and replayed the show again.
There are subtitles at the bottom. After Ye Qin fell down on the screen, someone next to him mentioned his education background by referring to associations and the like. There seemed to be a sense of irony between the lines. Yeqin's response was much more bland. He told the camera without hesitation that he had never been to college, and told them not to laugh that he couldn't skate.
The lips were curved, but there was no smile in the eyes.
Seeing that Cheng Feichi also restrained his face and held his breath, his amber pupils gradually deepened, as if he was thinking about something.
The next morning, the one who still lived in the second bedroom got up first.
When Cheng Feichi pushed open the half-closed bathroom door, Ye Qin was saying "good morning" to himself in the mirror, turned his head to Cheng Feichi, hiccupped in shock, and swallowed half of the foam that hadn't been spit out in his mouth.
I was still a little embarrassed when I was eating breakfast. I asked myself if I fell asleep on the sofa last night, but I didn't dare to make a loud noise, like a mosquito humming. Cheng Feichi nodded and said "yes", Ye Qin couldn't lift his head even more, and raised his hand to promise: "Next time... if there is a next time, it will definitely not happen."
This happened more than once when we lived together in Jiayuan Community six years ago.
Cheng Feichi goes to class during the day, and takes time to write lesson plans when he returns home at night. He is often too busy to talk to anyone. Ye Qin can't stay in the room, so he goes outside to the living room to play Lego games, and falls asleep after playing. caught. When he opened his eyes the next day, he must have been lying on the bed in good condition. When he asked Cheng Feichi what was going on, he smiled and said, "You sleepwalked and climbed up by yourself."
Ye Qin is not stupid enough to believe this, but no matter how much he asks him, he refuses to reveal anything else. This matter has taken root in Ye Qin's heart. He always thinks that he can't sleep too deeply in the future, and must be when Cheng Feichi is close to him. Wake up and see if he is being held or dragged.
However, Ye Qin, who has failed to fulfill his wish and has not yet mastered the skill of waking up at any time, has other concerns, and they are concerns with a higher priority-not to cause trouble for Cheng Feichi.
Sitting across the table, Cheng Feichi put down his chopsticks and said, "It's okay."
Ye Qin wasn't sure if he was thinking of something too, he hoped he would still remember, and also hoped he would quickly forget it, and just remember his less annoying side.
Since the reunion, he felt like two villains living in his heart, quarreling and fighting with opposing opinions anytime and anywhere, which made him exhausted before making a decision, and felt that his life's choice phobia was probably explained here.
Another whole day without going out.
He was too diligent yesterday, and there are limited things he can do today. After wiping the floor, Ye Qin picked up the note that Cheng Feichi left on the table and looked at it. He still didn't call the back chef, and cooked a bowl of noodles to fill his stomach. .
The few shirts he had just washed were crumpled in his arms when he slept yesterday. He was thinking about smoothing them out, so he found a garment steamer from the storage room, filled it with water according to the instructions on the Internet, and turned it on .
When the steam was coming out of the nozzle, he didn't know whether the level was usable, so he foolishly stretched out his hand to try it, and it was so hot that he almost screamed, and the cold water for a long time did not relieve the burning sensation of the burn.
When Cheng Feichi came back, several shirts had recovered and were hanging on the balcony fluttering in the wind.
It rained in the afternoon, and the temperature has dropped a little at this moment. The air conditioner is not turned on in the house, and the windows on the upper floors are wide open.
"I'll be leaving tomorrow." Ye Qin took the initiative to say during dinner, "Tomorrow I'm going back to the crew to make up shots."
Hearing this, Cheng Feichi looked up at him, and then let out a "huh".
After waiting for a long time, he still didn't get a door lock code. While Ye Qin was frustrated, he couldn't help but wonder what he had done wrong. The burnt part of the palm was still obvious, he deliberately avoided it while eating, Cheng Feichi probably didn't see it.
Where is it not doing well enough? Or, no matter what he did, Cheng Feichi couldn't be shaken
Just as he was thinking, the phone on the table rang. Cheng Feichi was taking a bath in the bathroom, so he couldn't hear the sound from outside. Ye Qin didn't intend to answer it, but the ringing kept ringing, and he called over and over again tirelessly.
By the fifth time, Yeqin couldn't listen anymore, picked up his phone and planned to go to the bathroom to knock on the door, but the burnt part of his palm shivered suddenly when he touched a hard object, and accidentally pressed the answer button.
Before he could think of a solution, he yelled on the other end of the phone: "Brother! Brother, are you going home to have dinner with Huihui today?"
Hearing the knock on the door, Cheng Feichi came out without drying his hair. The bathrobe was loose and only a belt was tied. He took the phone with one hand, and held a dry towel in the other hand. While drying his hair, he talked to the person on the phone: "Well... not today, you eat by yourself... no, I don't hate you... when school starts next month, I'll send you to school... okay, bye."
Ye Qin pretended to be folding clothes, kept looking at the disheveled Cheng Feichi, his ears were pricked up, and listened to every word he said.
There was a boy's voice on the phone, and when he came up, he called his brother stickyly, and said "go home for dinner", which made Ye Qin couldn't help thinking about it.
Before confirming the identity of the other party, he couldn't help but eat first. I don't know since when, he regarded "brother" as his exclusive address for Cheng Feichi, even though these two words are very common, hearing others call Cheng Feichi that way always makes him feel uncomfortable.
Cheng Feichi came out after drying his hair, and saw him sitting there without saying a word, not taking the cold medicine on the table, walked over and picked up the folded clothes and said, "My brother."
Ye Qin was taken aback by this thoughtless sentence, opened his eyes slightly, and looked up at him.
Cheng Feichi explained again seriously: "A half-brother."
Even if he only mentioned it in a few words, Ye Qin, who had been familiar with the secrets of the wealthy family since he was a child, could still deduce the situation of the Yi family from Cheng Feichi's attitude.
What's more, the son of the Yi family's original mate was defective, so the fact that Cheng Feichi was brought back to inherit the family business has long been known. It's just that he didn't expect that he had a good relationship with this nominal younger brother, closer than his biological parents.
Cheng Feichi said: "In the past few years abroad, he has often called me. He is quite an interesting kid."
When Ye Qin heard this, he just felt bored. Why should the next generation bear the grievances of the previous generation
Thinking back, didn't he do that himself back then? Transferring the anger of Ye Jinxiang to Cheng Feichi led to a series of disasters and changed the lives of the two of them.
While regretting the loss, he suddenly thought of the scene where he grabbed Cheng Feichi's hand and called his brother yesterday, and he was so ashamed that he wanted to find a place to hide again.
After casually taking a few changes of clothes, Ye Qin ran into the bathroom and opened the clothes with his back to the door to see the injury on his waist.
In the past two nights, I can only take this time to secretly see how the bruises are disappearing, the face is obviously disappearing faster, and the makeup should not be visible tomorrow, and I don't know how long it will take. Fortunately, there are no nude scenes, at most wearing a vest and shorts...
He was so focused that he didn't pay attention to the footsteps outside.
"your hands… "
The voice sounded with the door opening, and then stopped abruptly.
Cheng Feichi was holding a bottle of burn ointment in his hand, and his gaze fell directly on Ye Qin's waist. There were mottled bruises, which were even more shocking against the surrounding white skin. The scars were deep and long, winding all the way into the waistband of the trousers. Presumably there was still a large area covered by the clothes.
Ye Qin's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly covered his clothes back, turned around in a hurry, raised his hands and grinned, pretending to be stupid, and said, "Did you see the wound on my hand? I accidentally burned it when I was using the steamer. Hahaha hiss... it really hurts."
The means of diverting attention are too clumsy.
Cheng Feichi looked at his face, his expression didn't change, but his gaze became cold and cold.
He put the scald ointment by the sink and turned to leave, but Ye Qin hurriedly called to stop him.
"That's not..." Faking a smile, Ye Qin took two steps forward and then took a step back, "That's not what you think... I didn't, I didn't talk to others..."
He spoke incoherently, his mind was in a mess, and countless thoughts flashed across the sky, but he couldn't grasp any of them that could be used to prove his innocence.
The last time Cheng Feichi sent him from the clubhouse to Cangquan Mountain, he took out a cosmetic from his pocket, Cheng Feichi already felt that his private life was chaotic, unclean and self-respecting, right
That's right, in such a chaotic circle, how many people can be clean and free from mud? Cheng Feichi lived in poverty, and now he is in a wealthy family, how could he not know about the dirty things here
Ye Qin was so anxious that he was about to cry, and the more anxious he became, the more panicked he became, but apart from "no" and "no", he couldn't say anything more powerful.
Even if he said it, would Cheng Feichi believe it? In his eyes, isn't he just a liar who is full of lies and plays with other people's feelings
The voice of justification gradually became weaker, Ye Qin couldn't continue speaking, he lowered his head slumpedly, raised a hand to cover his eyes, as if he could pretend nothing happened without looking, pretending that no one else could see him so helpless look.
One second, two seconds, three seconds—
He closed his eyes and recited a dozen numbers silently in his heart, but the expected footsteps gradually drifting away did not appear, but there was a deep voice that made him tremble when he heard it.
Cheng Feichi turned around, and his voice fell on top of his head: "I know."