After Fu Shize went downstairs, he sat on Yun Li's left hand side, and Xu Qingsong sat next to him one after another.
Yunli felt that the presence of the person on the left was too strong, so she involuntarily leaned towards Fu Zhengchu.
Fu Zhengchu: "Sister Lili, why are you so close?"
Yunli whispered back: "Sitting with you makes me feel at ease."
When Xia Congsheng saw Fu Shize, he was shocked: "Uncle, you look so handsome today. I didn't know that Qing Song's clothes suit you quite well."
Although Yunli thought it was appropriate, she was also confused as to why he suddenly wore it like this.
Fu Shize gave a reasonable reason: "I didn't bring any change of clothes."
"I think it's appropriate, too," Xu Qingsong said with a smile, "Have you decided what to play?"
Xia Congsheng replied: "We just took apart a pair of uno."
Xu Qingsong: "Okay."
Chen Renran suggested: "Let's play grab 0, it will be more exciting."
Everyone except Yunli seemed to understand the rules and replied: "Okay."
"I have no opinion."
Seeing Yun Li's confused eyes, Chen Renran explained: "After someone plays the '0' card, everyone must quickly cover the card with their hands, and the last person to cover the card must touch two cards."
The game progressed in an orderly manner. After Yunli got started, she found that it was quite simple. She followed her opponent and dealt cards of the same suit or the same number.
After someone dealt the first "0" card, everyone quickly put their hands down and stacked them together. Yunli didn't react, and when she realized it, she was about to draw two cards.
After touching twice, Yunli became wary and kept paying attention to the cards played by others. Until someone played "0" in the second round of the game, Yunli quickly covered his hand alertly, and the others also covered his hand.
Lu Yu's reaction speed was about the same as Yun Li's. He took a step behind her and put his hand on hers.
This time Fu Shi was the last one.
Yunli secretly applauded her extremely fast reaction speed in her heart.
Once again, when Yunli played the "0" card herself, she quickly blocked it, followed closely by Fu Shi. Until the last person was separated, the palms and backs of the two people's hands were close to each other.
Yunli could feel Fu Shize's hand lying on the back of her hand. Even so, the part that came into contact made her heart beat fast.
She secretly looked at Fu Chize, her face still as pale as water.
The next two times in this game, Fu Shize was behind Yunli and blocked his hand.
Yunli felt that her heart couldn't bear it. After the game was over, she wanted to say that she didn't want to play anymore.
Before she could speak, Fu Shize said, "Change the game."
Yunli looked at him blankly.
Several people with good relationships present respected his proposal and agreed directly.
Chen Renran was not having fun and asked: "Why? Everyone is not having a good time."
Fu Shi held his chin with one hand and said in a casual tone: "I am used to remembering cards. I win too quickly and have no gaming experience."
Chen Renran: "..."
Others: "..."
Chen Renran: "Since I don't want to play Uno anymore, what should I play?"
Deng Chuqi suggested: "Let's play the big and small card. The person who draws the highest card can ask anyone present a question." Everyone said it was okay.
"By the way," Chen Renran said; "Since we are here to play, let's have some fun. I brought two bottles of wine. I'll get them."
After Chen Renran got the wine, he handed a bottle to Lu Yu, and then poured it for everyone sitting on his side.
When he arrived at Fu Shize's place, Fu Shize said, "I don't need it, thank you."
Yunli was a little surprised when she heard his rejection. In her impression, Fu Shize and wine were almost tied together.
The game started, everyone drew cards and showed them one after another. The card Yunli touched was not too big, and she secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't want to ask anyone, and she didn't want to be asked.
After Chen Renran looked at the cards, he shouted: "I am definitely the best!" Then he showed the cards.
King of spades.
There really isn't anything bigger.
Xia Congsheng: "Then pick someone to ask."
Chen Renran's purpose was very clear and he said to Yun Li, "Is there anyone here that you have a crush on?"
Suddenly, everyone looked at Yunli.
Yunli couldn't bear the attention of everyone and replied: "No."
Chen Renran then asked: "What if I force you to choose one?"
Yunli: "..."
Xia Congsheng interrupted: "No, I can only ask one question."
Chen Renran spread his hands: "Okay."
Then one after another, other people also touched the biggest one, but the questions they asked were generally about embarrassing things in the past.
Until Lu Yu touched the biggest one, he wanted to help Chen Renran. After thinking for a while, he asked: "Who do you think is the most handsome among the people here?"
Chen Renran: "..."
He was speechless and stepped on Lu Yu in private.
Yunli didn't expect that the two of them would be so reluctant to leave. After struggling feebly for a while, she locked her eyes on Fu Zhengchu: "Fu Zhengchu."
Fu Zhengchu opened his eyes wide and said sheepishly: "Really?"
Yunli suddenly felt sorry for him: "Of course."
After answering the question, Yunli's heart dropped. She wanted to pick up the drink and take a sip, but the original orange juice had already reached the bottom. She looked at the glass of wine that had just been poured next to her and hesitated.
Suddenly, an extra hand appeared in his sight.
Fu Shi moved her wine away and placed the orange juice he had not drunk in front of her.
He drank the glass of wine in one gulp: "You guys play first. I'm going to smoke a cigarette."
After Fu Shize left, Yunli also played absent-mindedly.
She looked at the orange juice in front of her and felt that her mind went blank.
Deng Chuqi noticed her abnormality and smoothed things over: "It's already so late, how about we take a rest first?"
Xia Congsheng echoed: "Indeed, and there is a hot spring in the room. Let's go back early and relax."
The group dispersed.
Xia Congsheng wants to find her parents first. After Yunli returned to the room, she went to the balcony to fill the outdoor hot spring pool. The temperature is low, and the water flows into the pool and steams up.
Deng Chuqi took off her makeup in front of the mirror and said with emotion: "Today, the flower of the high mountain puts on a floral shirt. At first glance, he looks like a young man. I thought only Xu Qingsong had this temperament before."
Yunli moved a chair and sat next to her, and also removed her makeup.
Seeing her preoccupied look, Deng Chuqi nudged her: "Hey, wouldn't you be so fascinated by him when he changes his clothes?"
"How can I be such a lustful person?" Yunli glanced at her and walked to the balcony holding her yukata.
The two took off their clothes and entered the pool.
Her body was quickly filled with warmth. Yunli scooped up water and poured it on her shoulders. The diffuse mist seemed to hit the wooden partitions, making Yunli's thoughts a little erratic.
She approached Deng Chuqi and whispered: "Didn't I tell you before that he planned to date a girl he has known for many years."
Deng Chuqi: "That's right..."
Yunli raised her head and leaned against the marble edge, and said confusedly: "But I asked Fu Zhengchu, and he said that people who have known each other for a long time are related by blood..."
Not quite understanding what she meant, Deng Chuqi thought for a long time: "Is Uncle Xia Xia okay with this?"
“…”
Not sure what Deng Chuqi was thinking, Yunli denied: "That's not what I meant." She asked unconfidently: "Just, do you think I might have misunderstood him?"
Deng Chuqi took a towel and put it behind her to avoid touching the cold corner of the pool. She disagreed: "Even if this is a misunderstanding, it is a fact that he has always rejected you."
Deng Chuqi: "Lili, my colleague likes you very much. You must know that you are a very popular person."
Yunli: "Forget about your colleague..."
Deng Chuqi: "Why don't you ask him directly? You keep guessing, and you are the one who feels uncomfortable."
Yunli put the pillow towel over her eyes: "I have been rejected so many times, how can I dare to ask." She murmured: "Aren't you humiliating yourself?"
Soaking in the warm water, the pores dilated due to the heat, Yunli relaxed her whole body, and briefly forgot about the troubles of the past month.
Fu Shize's shadow appeared in front of his eyes, and Yunli came back to his senses. She held the edge of the marble with both hands, pushed herself up to sit on the edge of the pool, and reached for the towel on the side.
As soon as it was freezing outside, Yunli entered the pool again with a thud.
Deng Chuqi stared at her maliciously: "Lili, your figure has improved in recent years..."
Before he finished speaking, there were two sudden thuds on the wooden board.
“…”
The two fell into silence.
Deng Chuqi: "Did you hear the sound just now?"
Yunli: "..."
The two of them climbed out of the hot spring pool in tacit agreement, put on their bathrobes, rushed back to the room, and closed the balcony window tightly.
Yunli felt creepy: "The one next door to us is..."
Deng Chuqi: "Damn..."
…
When Xu Qingsong returned to the room, Fu Shize was lying on the edge of the pool playing with his mobile phone. Seeing that he was in a bad mood, Xu Qingsong hilariously scooped up water and poured it directly on his head.
"You have to quit smoking, that's half the game."
Fu Shi wiped the water from his eyes with a towel and moved to the side without saying anything to continue playing with his mobile phone.
Seeing that he didn't say anything, Xu Qingsong cooperated and didn't ask any more questions. He took off his clothes and soaked in the hot spring pool. After a day of exhaustion, he felt sleepy within two minutes.
When the water was being discharged in the next room, every sound could be heard clearly through a wooden board.
The tranquility between the two of them was broken by the sudden intrusion of chatter.
It was the voices of Yunli and Deng Chuqi.
Fu Shi tilted his head and looked towards the source of the sound. He moved in the direction of the source of the sound and knocked on the wooden board.
Then there were the sounds of Yunli and Deng Chuqi leaving the pool and escaping back to the room.
Xu Qingsong woke up and leaned on the edge of the pool, staring at Fu Shize in his spare time.
Yun Li and Deng Chuqi didn't name them. Xu Qingsong didn't listen very seriously, but he could probably guess what was going on. He curled his lips and didn't ask any more questions.
Seeing that he seemed to have encountered something interesting, Fu Shi glanced at him, his voice slightly reproachful: "I asked you about the restaurant before..."
Xu Qingsong didn't think of this question just now, and was stunned for a moment: "Did Xiao He tell Yun Li?"
He splashed the water and said with a smile, "I just want to block the peach blossoms for you."
Fu Shi closed his eyes and ignored him.
But he was thinking about what Fu Zhengchu told him today and the conversation between Yunli and Deng Chuqi just now.
What a ridiculous misunderstanding.
…
After returning to the room, Yunli was in a state of collapse.
She wiped her wet hair desperately, and Deng Chuqi comforted her: "Don't think so much, maybe you didn't hear anything... Even if you did hear it, it's okay..."
If you really didn't hear it, you wouldn't knock on the wooden board to remind them.
Yunli lowered his head in frustration: "Kill me."
After comforting Yunli for a while, Deng Chuqi said that Chen Renran asked them to go play mahjong together. Yunli was extremely autistic and stared at her mobile phone in her bed, dejectedly saying: "I'm not going."
The next day, Yunli got up at eight o'clock and planned to call Xia Congsheng and Deng Chuqi to have breakfast. The two of them didn't come back until one or two o'clock in the morning last night. They drank a lot of wine and were sleeping soundly in the bed at the moment.
Yunli had no choice but to go out by herself. Not long after she closed the door, she heard the door slam behind her. She turned around and saw Fu Shize walking out of the room.
Fu Shize: "Going to have breakfast?"
Yunli: "Well..."
Fu Shize: "One piece."
The restaurant is in another building. The self-service breakfast only has a simple toaster and omelette machine, and the rest is a few thermal trays with some Chinese breakfast.
"Want some toast?" Fu Shize stood beside her. Yunli nodded. He took the tong in her hand and put two pieces of toast into the toaster.
Yun Li was still waiting nearby, while Fu Shi glanced at her and said, "Go to your seat first."
Putting breakfast on the table, Yunli sat down, but her buttocks were still hot. Chen Renran and Lu Yu moved the plates from another table to Yunli's table and asked, "Can we sit here?"
Yunli nodded: "Fu Shize is waiting for toast over there..."
She looked up and stared at the back. He waited there for a while and transferred the toast to the plate.
Chen Renran probed: "Oh, are you in the ambiguous period?"
Yunli choked for a moment and shook her head quickly: "No..."
This answer made Chen Renran feel that he still had hope. He placed the plate opposite Yunli. Seeing that there was nothing on her plate, he asked, "You didn't get anything to drink? I'll get it for you. What do you want to drink?"
Before Yunli refused, Fu Shize had already returned with a dinner plate. He sat next to Yunli and answered for her: "No, I took it."
After sitting down, Fu Shi took two pieces of toast from his plate and put them on her plate, and also gave her a poached egg.
Fu Shi unwrapped the plastic seal on the straw on the milk carton and used the straw to pierce the aluminum foil seal before handing it to Yunli.
The milk is warm.
He said calmly: "Took the water and soaked it for a while, which wasted some time."
His own breakfast consists of two slices of toast and an Americano.
Chen Renran looked at the intimate behavior between the two, and thought about Yun Li's denial just now, his expression was a little strange.
During the whole breakfast, the few people only chatted a few words. After finishing the meal, Yunli walked outside and found that her small bag had been left on the spot. Fu Shi asked her to wait where she was before turning and returning to the restaurant.
Since yesterday, Chen Renran felt that Yunli was being kept secret by Fu Shize. Although Deng Chuqi repeatedly emphasized to him that the two had no emotional involvement, he couldn't help but doubt it.
Taking this opportunity, he asked Yun Li again: "Aren't you and Uncle Congsheng really in an ambiguous period? Or are you already in a relationship?"
Yunli shook her head.
Chen Renran felt a little uncomfortable, and regardless of Lu Yu's presence, he said frankly: "Yunli, I actually have a crush on you. If you don't have the will to develop, you can just say so. You don't need to ask Uncle Congsheng for help to help me get out of the way. "
These words confused Yunli, and she said blankly: "What?"
"You and Uncle Congsheng don't seem to be ordinary friends. If you and him are ambiguous in front of me just to reject me, then there is really no need."
Yunli had given up pursuing Fu Shize for some time. It was not clear whether there were lingering thoughts in her relationship with Fu Shize that she was not aware of, which led Chen Renran to have such thoughts. After a pause, he asked, "Why do you say we are not just friends?"
Chen Renran felt more and more that Yunli wanted to hide his intentions, and laughed angrily: "How can ordinary friends get along like this?"
Fu Shize came back just in time. He didn't know the topic of their chat, so he lowered his head and said to Yunli, "Let's go."
Last night, I couldn't sleep because of the hot spring bath. Now I caught up with what Chen Renran said, and Yunli was full of worries.
Fu Shize glanced at her: "What are you thinking about?"
Yunli was startled and said casually: "I'm thinking about how ordinary friends should be treated..."
This sentence sounded different to Fu Shize.
He said nothing and pointed the direction to Yunli: "Tonight, on Christmas Eve, there are lights over there."
There were faint lights and Christmas decorations on the tree. Fu Shi paused for a while and continued: "The lights will be turned on after nine o'clock."
Yunli nodded absentmindedly.
Deng Chuqi and Xia Congsheng slept until the afternoon, and Yunli didn't go out at all. After they woke up, Yunli realized that Fu Zhengchu had also drunk too much late last night.
After they sobered up, they discussed playing cards downstairs tonight. Yunli couldn't fit into this kind of drinking game, and she didn't seem to get along well with Chen Renran, so she excused herself from editing the video tonight.
Deng Chuqi probably heard something from Chen Renran, so he didn't force it.
Yunli stayed in the room until ten o'clock, feeling too idle. From time to time, the laughter of several people could be heard downstairs, and she couldn't fall asleep early. Thinking of what Fu Shize said today, Yunli got up, changed her clothes, and carried her camera.
After looking at the temperature outside, Yunli filled the hand-warming ball with boiling water, wrapped it in flannel and covered it with both hands before going out.
The sound of classical music coming from Fu Shize's room can be heard at the door.
Not sure who is there.
Yunli went downstairs. Several people were playing cards and chatting, but Fu Shize and Xu Qingsong were not there. Avoiding Chen Renran's sight, Yunli said hello and went out on the pretext of taking pictures of the exterior of the villa. After a short time, she rejected the idea of Fu Zhengchu accompanying her.
After going out, Yunli walked in the direction mentioned by Fu Shize during the day.
The lighting was near the restaurant, a few hundred meters from the small villa where they lived. As she approached the woods, Yunli could already see the looming warm yellow light strips, winding around the treetops.
Further away, you can see the sky is gray and blue, and the clouds are like dye.
She turned on her camera and took a photo from a distance.
Yunli gathered her coat and approached with a hand warmer.
A hammock hangs from a thick branch, about half a meter above the ground. Yunli walked forward, and the hammock moved slightly.
She paused.
The person lying on the bed turned on the screen of his mobile phone and put it aside. Although the time was short, Yunli could still recognize that it was Fu Shize.
She hesitated for a while, then slowly approached.
He curled up in a hanging bed and slept, with a bottle of wine and a glass beside him. The bottle was only half full.
At such a low temperature, he didn't wear much, and his lips were white.
I felt a little uncomfortable.
Yunli knelt down and approached, poking his shoulder.
Fu Shize opened his eyes and looked at her with a dazed expression. He sat up and said softly, "You're here."
You came
It sounded as if the two had made an appointment in advance to meet tonight.
The outside temperature was extremely low, and Yunli felt like frost had already formed on the tree trunks. Fu Shize looked up at her now. His eyes were clear and different from his usual expression. The corners of his eyes had lost their sharpness and he looked like a teenager.
He lowered his eyes to look at the empty space beside him and said softly: "Sit for a while."
Yunli stood still and didn't move.
After a moment, she said: "You drank too much."
Yunli handed him the handball, and Fu Shi stared at it for a while, then reached out to take it. His hand, which had been so cold that he lost consciousness, felt a little better. He insisted, "Sit for a while."
Not wanting to get involved with a drunkard, Yunli sat helplessly next to him.
The hammock formed an inverted triangle shape under the influence of gravity, and the distance between the two was forced to close.
Fu Shi lowered his eyes, took her wrist, and put the hand-warming ball back into her palm. There was a huge contrast between the warmth in the palm and the coldness on the wrist, but Yunli focused all her attention on the cold touch.
Fu Shi did not let go.
He took Yunli's other hand and placed it on the hand warmer.
Time seems to be frozen in this scene.
She saw the boy she first met seven years ago looking at her.
He slowly came closer and placed his lips against her right ear.
"Aren't you going to chase me anymore?"